Quotes About Adversity

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.

There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavor of life until he has known poverty, love, and war.

When it's dark enough men see stars.

In soft regions are born soft men.

The man who ain't got an enemy is really poor.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

The only difference between me and a homeless man is this job. I will do whatever it takes to survive…like I did when I was a homeless man.

If a man amounts to much in this world, he must encounter many and varied annoyances whose number mounts as his effectiveness increases.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

In all history the only bright rays cutting the gloom of oppression have come from men who would rather get hurt than give in.

A man does a lot of praying in an enemy prison. Prayer, even more than sheer thought, is the firmest anchor.

I sincerely believe that no problem is bigger than man, and problems are blown out of proportion by man himself.

Man thrives, oddly enough, only in the presence of a challenging environment.

He is truly a man who will not permit himself to be unduly elated when fortune's breeze is favorable, or cast down when it is adverse.

Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed.

Joe Louis is the hardest puncher that I've ever seen... He's a good man. Anyone who plans on beating him had better know what they're doing.

Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins. It is the smell of War.

There are always fuckups, and there is always a goat. Sometimes the goat is you.

If a zombie attack had actually materialized, then they might have had a clue as to how to respond. But a stupendous machine-gun free-for-all in the apartment above them was not an eventuality that they had ever thought of and so it froze them for a time.

The answer is, I chose to seek my fortune. Failed. Lost all. Then got a fortune I had not ever looked for. Lost it though. Got it back. Lost it. Got another - the story is somewhat repetitious.

Disaster' is an astrological term meaning 'bad star.

I had to ride my bike to and from their god damn plant way up north in the high-chemical crime district, and reachable only by riding on the shoulder of some major freeways. I could feel the years ticking off my life expectancy as the mile markers struggled by.

The situation could not possibly be as dire as it seemed or they would all be dead.