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Quotes About Adversity

We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man.
~ Malcolm X
It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.
~ Juvenal
It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
~ Charles Bukowski
But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.
~ Viktor E. Frankl
You become a man by knowing both victory and defeat, by running and crying. It's ok to cry..!! You can overcome
~ Eiichiro Oda
Pitch a lucky man into the Nile, says the Arabian proverb, and he will come up with a fish in his mouth!
~ Nathaniel Parker Willis
Every man is his own worst enemy
~ Christina, Queen of Sweden
The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.
~ Colin Wilson
Occasions do not make a man either strong or weak but they show what he is.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Stand up and take your dissonance like a man.
~ Charles Ives
I'm a man that has a vision as to how this world can be, and I've gathered myself through all the ordeals that I had to make me a well-rounded person and still fight for justice.
~ John Carlos
Art is like a shipwreck; it's every man for himself.
~ Marcel Duchamp
The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.
~ Aleister Crowley
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down.
~ Frederick Douglass
Man is the hardest animal to kill. If he gets away he will come back to kill you.
~ Salvatore Maranzano
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.
~ Nicolas Chamfort
If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
~ Edna Ferber
The confirmed man of trout should resolve to get along with wood ticks. Any other procedure would fail because the wood tick is determined to get along with trout fishermen.
~ Gordon MacQuarrie
Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so.
~ John F. Kennedy
A man endures misfortune without complaint.
~ Franz Schubert
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
~ Flann O'Brien
As bees extract honey from thyme, the strongest and driest of herbs, so sensible men often get advantage and profit from the most awkward circumstances.
~ Plutarch
One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.
~ Alfred the Great