Quotes about Adversity
An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness.
- Sonia Sotomayor
I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse political conditions.
- Albert Schweitzer
Whether life grinds a man down or polishes him depends on what he's made of.
- Kathryn Kuhlman
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
- Aristotle
To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his left and right hand. He uses both.
- Catherine of Siena
By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there.
- St. Francis Of Assisi
You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.
- Jerry Falwell
A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.
- James A. Garfield
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
- Booker T. Washington
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
- Winston Churchill
Behind every successful man, there is a woman - And behind every unsuccessful man, there are two.
- Mark Twain
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.
- George Eliot