Quotes About Adversity

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all.

The good man has his enemies. He would not be like His Lord if he had not. If we were without enemies we might fear that we were not the friends of God, for friendship of the world is enmity to God.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.

A clever man reaps some benefit from the worst catastrophe, and a fool can turn even good luck to his disadvantage.

You take that walk from the dressing room to the ring and that's when the real man comes out. Then you climb up those four stairs and into the ring. Then finally, you can't wait for the bell to ring.

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.

Bad luck either destroys you or it makes you the man you really are.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

And yet I think of Christopher Reeve who said he would pay two million dollars to be able to feel pain again. What a courageous man! So I have to think that pain is a blessing.

What a childhood I had, why, when I took my first step, my old man tripped me!

Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.

The apprenticeship of difficulty is one which the greatest of men have had to serve.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"

There arc no such things as desperate situations. Only desperate men.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.