Quotes About Adversity

He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.

The bravest sight in all this world is a man fighting against odds.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

... sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

I am an ordinary sort of fellow, not braver than other people, but I hate to see a good man downed, and that long knife would not be the end of Scudder if I could play the game in his place.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

There are some vile and contemptible men who, allowing themselves to be conquered by misfortune, seek a refuge in death.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

A brave man thinks no one his superior who does him an injury, for he has it then in his power to make himself superior to the other by forgiving it.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.

CONSOLATION, n. The knowledge that a better man is more unfortunate than yourself.

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

Evils draw men together.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

It is the lot of man to suffer.

The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends

At the working man's house, hunger looks in but dares not enter.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

Weak men are easily put out of humor. Oil freezes quicker than water.

For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

Leo Durocher is a man with an infinite capacity for making a bad thing worse.

Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.