Quotes About Adversity

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong: They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

A person born with an instinct for poverty.

A wounded dear leaps the highest

Falling in love with you was out of my control, but I do have a say in what happens next. And, I will choose to stay in love with you through everything this life throws at us.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.

Any nation that can survive what we have lately in the way of government, is on the high road to permanent glory.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse.

Victory will never be found by taking the path of least resistance.

It's a tough world out there. You're going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees - and usually when you're the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

Great obstacles make great leaders.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

The present convergence of crises - in money, energy, education, health, water, soil, climate, politics, the environment, and more - is a birth crisis, expelling us from the old world into a new.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

I watched Nancy Pelosi and Tom Daschle. Good grief. What whining weenies.

I'm glad I'm blind and can't see it.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up.

One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.