Quotes About Adversity

You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.

Great advantages are often attended with great inconveniences, and great minds called to severe trials.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

Great character is forged through hardships.

Don't dodge difficulties; meet them, greet them, beat them. All great men have been through the wringer.

There is nothing better than getting shot at and missed. It's really great.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."

Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

You need to see a bit of hell now and then. That, and great joy.

It is amazing how, when all possibilities seem to be taken away from you, the minutest opening can become a great freedom.

You have to go through rough patches to achieve great things

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

The country is not in good condition.