Quotes About Adversity

no man leaves where he is and seeks a distant place unless he is in some respect a failure; but having failed in one location and having been ejected, it is possible that in the next he will be a little wiser.

James A. Michener

That's how it gonna be all your life," Julia Cater told her son, and she was preaching old black wisdom, for through the generations that was how black women enabled their sons to survive so that they could grow into black men. Hiram

Chesapeake Bay is like a beautiful woman. There's no humiliation from which she cannot recover.

When Hiram Cater was seven years old his serious education began, not in spelling or arithmetic but in the brutal tactics of survival in a white world.

We are mankind because we survive. We do it in a half-assed way, but we do it.

Religions are always in trouble," Tabari said. "In adversity they grow honest. It's good for them.

this world contains an irreducible minority of sick sons of bitches, and sooner or later one of them is going to impinge on your life, and mine.

The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

Unrest and pain and sorrow are the shadows of life.

Turn the disadvantage to account by utilizing it for the gaining of mental and spiritual strength, and

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveal him to himself

Circumstance does not make the man;

They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it luck.

No situation can be difficult of itself; it is the lack of insight into its intricacies, and the want of wisdom in dealing with it, which give rise to the difficulty. Immeasurable, therefore, is the gain of a difficulty transcended.

No man can be confronted with a difficulty which he has not the strength to meet and subdue. Worry is not merely useless, it is folly, for it defeats that power and intelligence which is otherwise equal to the task.

Every difficulty can be overcome if rightly dealt with; anxiety is, therefore, unnecessary. The task which cannot be overcome ceases to be a difficulty, and becomes an impossibility; and anxiety is still unnecessary, for there is only one way of dealing with an impossibility - namely, to submit to it. The inevitable is the best.

Circumstance does not make the person; it reveals him to himself

They do not know the darkness and the heartaches; they only see the light and joy, and call it luck; do not see the long and arduous journey, but only behold the pleasant goal, and call it good fortune; do not understand the process, but only perceive the result, and call it chance.

privations;

A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine...

It may be that you are in the employ of a tyrannous master or mistress, and you feel that you are harshly treated. Look upon this also as necessary to your training. Return your employer's unkindness with gentleness and forgiveness.

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself