Quotes About Adversity

There are only two things that can destroy a healthy [hu]man: love trouble, ambition, and financial catastrophe. And that's already three things, and there are a lot more.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

If a man, cautious, hides his limp, Somebody has to limp it! Things do it; the surroundings limp. House walls get scars, the car breaks down; matter, in drudgery, takes it up.

Nothing is more dangerous to men than a sudden change of fortune.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

There were angry men confronting me and I caught the flashing of defiant eyes, but above me and within me, there was a spirit stronger than them all.

Heaven prepares good men with crosses; but no ill can happen to a good man.

A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.

...as man under pressure tends to give in to physical and intellectual weakness, only great strength of will can lead to the objective.

Though you break your heart, men will go on as before.

A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.

They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so.

If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Circumstances make man, not man circumstances.

Art is man's refuge from adversity.

I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brings out the best in me. I'm gonna tell ya, that's one helluva man, and God bless him

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

Woe to the man who tries to remain objective and to maintain a wide perspective: every one will label him as an enemy.

Do not reproach a man with his misfortunes, fearing lest Nemesis may overtake you.

What's the point anyway - Of suffering, dying? It teaches us to live, boy. A man who does not struggle does not live, he survives.