Quotes About Adversity

I can safely say that I had an incredibly difficult and trying past growing up and trying to be an artist and standing up as who I am in this world.

You know what 'FAILING' stands for? It stands for 'Finding An Important Lesson, Inviting Needed Growth.'

It doesn't matter who stands in front of me, I've got to find a way to go out there and win.

I bombed so much as a standup that messing up doesn't matter to me anymore. I kind of enjoy bombing sometimes - I try and make everybody hate me more. Like, once I know it's not going well, I can just have fun.

A man who is used to acting in one way never changes; he must come to ruin when the times, in changing, no longer are in harmony with his ways.

With all the injury problems we have in men's tennis at the moment, I'm happy to still be standing.

Whatever sin the heart of man is most prone to, that the devil will help forward.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

No man was ever ruined from without; the final ruin comes from within, when you turn hopeless and lose courage!

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

This is the step up people have wanted. [Wladimir] Klitschko wants his belts back, may the best man win.

Circumstances do not make the man or woman, they merely reveal them.

The work of many of the greatest men, inspired by duty, has been done amidst suffering and trial and difficulty. They have struggled against the tide, and reached the shore exhausted.

Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.

Your only gain is to try to get me to fall down to your level. Man, you worser than devils.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

The failure is the man who stays down when he falls.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

I haven't been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don't feel good, and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man.

When a man's faith is never tried, I don't think he'll ever learn anything. You have to have trial and tribulation, or what are you going to learn?

When it is dark enough, men see the stars.

I wouldn't want to see anything irreparable happen, but I also like it when seemingly irreparable thing occur and men and women find a way to move past it.