Quotes About Adversity

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.

You can't run away from your problems. They'll always find you.

if I went through life only talking to people who were glad to see me, I wouldn't be much of a repo man, now would I?

I'd had two fights in the past couple of hours; won one, lost one (to a bird)

John Lennon dijo que la vida es lo que sucede mientras hacemos otros planes.

I left out the part about being beaten up by a twenty-pound goose.

During one of my treks through Afghanistan, we lost our corkscrew. We were compelled to live on food and water for several days.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Every Adversity Has the Seed of an Equivalent or Greater Benefit.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

After a storm there is fair weather, after sorrow there is joy.

But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Is it a reasonable thing, I ask you, for a grown man to run about and hit a ball? Poker's the only game fit for a grown man. Then, your hand is against every man's, and every man's is against yours. Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There's only one way to make a fortune, and that's to down the fellow who's up against you.

I forget who it was that recommended men for their soul's good to do each day two things they disliked… it is a precept that I have followed scrupulously; for every day I have got up and I have gone to bed.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

He who made you bitter made you wise.

Every man is himself a class; every hour carries its new challenge.

Now days are dragon-ridden.

Barach. There, he is down! He is up again! He is going out into the deep water.

The world is such a dangerous place a man is lucky to get out alive.