Quotes about Adversity

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.

After the struggle for sheer existence, they had no energy left for a civilization.

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.

For once you have fallen low. Let us see, in the future, how you can rise.

Misfortunes never come single.

So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.

I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.