Quotes About Adversity

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

Do not say, What what fear has a rich man of calamity.

Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.

There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

That profound firmness which enabler a man to regard difficulties but as evils to be surmounted, no matter what shape they may assume.

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

Everybody goes through some tough times in their life, no matter what you do. Man, I've had my tough times.

I didn't want to be the crippled songwriter or the crippled singer. I wanted to be the singer or the songwriter who was crippled. I wanted to be larger than life and a man among men.

I am a product of a rat and roach infested black ghetto. It is easy for me to rationalize my dealings as a numbers man. I'll defend men today who are involved in it.

Treat a man like dirt-he produces flowers.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

How many perils doe enfold The righteous man to make him daily fall.

In the history of man it has been very generally the case that when evils have grown insufferable they have touched the point of cure.

The man who has no problems is out of the game.

Difficulty shows what men are.

Fate finds for every man; his share of misery.

Every man eventually is backed up to the wall of faith, and there he must make his stand.

Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affliction or grief has humanized the soul.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

You know a one eyed woman, she do the best she can. She search the world over trying to find her a one eyed man.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.