Quotes About Adversity

I cried when I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet. And then I laughed REALLY hard.

The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.

If a wise man behaves prudently, how can he be overcome by his enemies? Even a single man, by right action, can overcome a host of foes.

The most base of men can be civilized through suffering.

Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but it is confoundedly inconvenient.

Everywhere man is confronted with fate , with a chance of achieving something through his own suffering.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it.

Well, there are some things a man just can't run away from.

A sadder but wiser man is a thousand times more agreeable to meet than the feller that never makes a mistake.

What is the life of man! Is it not to shift from side to side? From sorrow to sorrow? To button up one cause of vexation! And unbutton another!

Are you or aren't you convinced that weakness is a man's condition? How can you raise yourself if you haven't fallen first?

I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before, not even a Sailor in a slow-sailing ship.

Without goodness a man cannot endure adversity for long, nor can he enjoy prosperity for long. The good man is naturally at ease with goodness. The wise man cultivates goodness for its advantage.

A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.

Nobody knows through how many thousands of years fighting men have made a place for themselves while the weak and peaceable have gone to the wall.

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

Girls can do everything men can do...just backwards and in heels

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

A man that is down doesn't fear to fall.

Fortune is no real thing. But men who cannot bear what comes to them In Nature's way, give their own characters The name of Fortune.