Quotes About Adversity

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane In proving foresight may be vain The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain For promis'd joy!

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

I'm playing against men who are bigger and stronger than I'm used to. I've definitely got to bulk up at some point.

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Be brave. Cowards always get hurt. Brave men generally come out unharmed.

Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes.

The greatness of man lies in his decision to be stronger than his condition.

Now that we are poor, we are free. No white man controls our footsteps.

Never has our nation , or our world, stood on the precipice of adversity in such dire need of men answering the cry to rule well.

A man can be destroyed, but he can't be defeated.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

Only the paths that lead to nowhere, merely the storms that are violent, purely the dangerous forests make man a real man!

I can attack a man's weakness and beat him. Or I can attack a man's strengths and break him.

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves.

I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.

I was once a fortunate man but at some point fortune abandoned me. But true good fortune is what you make for yourself. Good fortune: good character, good intentions, and good actions.

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.