Quotes About Adversity

As such, I also bear witness to the unexpected extent to which man is capable of defying and braving even the worst conditions conceivable.

Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards.

No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.

The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.

You can't make a weak man strong by making a strong man weak

Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.

As a camel beareth labor, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.

A man is not measured by how much he can take and stand but by how fast he regains once fallen.

He who kneels before God, can stand before any man.

You do not know me,' said Tortoise. 'I am a changed man. I have learned that a man who makes trouble for others makes trouble for himself.

Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage.

When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind.

The world is upside down, if you can keep your head while everyone around you is losing theirs and blaming it on you, then you will be a man, my son. One of the greatest lines ever written.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

The times are never so bad but that a good man can make shift to live in them.

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

Courage is not how a man stands or falls, but how he gets back up again

A good man may fall, but he falls like a ball [and rebounds]; the ignoble man falls like a lump of clay.

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving.

Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.