Quotes About Adversity

The virtue of a free man appears equally great in refusing to face difficulties as in overcoming them.

Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

If anyone has a new idea in this country, there are twice as many people who keep putting a man with a red flag in front of it.

It is easy to be liked when the world has no jagged edges, when life is electric blankets and peach ice cream. But to be beloved, a man needs a dragon.

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it, a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.

Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

A man is like a rope: both break at a definite strain....The solution is not splicing the rope; it's lessening the tension.

A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him.

A boy who won't stand up for himself becomes a man who can't stand up to anything.

The saddest birds a season find to sing,The roughest storm a calm may soon allay;Thus with succeeding turns God tempereth all,That men may hope to rise yet fear to fall.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

They whose minds are least sensitive to calamity, and whose hands are most quick to meet it, are the greatest men and the greatest communities.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

Success is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.

Without that innate sense of human worth, a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

If he had a million men he would swear the enemy has two millions, and then he would sit down in the mud and yell for three.

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.