Quotes about Adversity

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

Don't you worry your pretty little mind. People throw rocks at things that shine and life makes love look hard

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue which has not been tested in the fire.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Life is planned with one principle objective to make you do all the particular things you particularly don't want to do.

Not because his troubles were one whit less heavy and bitter to him than a man's are to a man, but because a new and powerful interest bore them down and drove them out of his mind for the time—just as men's misfortunes are forgotten in the excitement of new enterprises.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

Your mother couldn't read, and she couldn't write, nuther, before she died. None of the family couldn't before they died. I can't; and here you're a-swelling yourself up like this.

It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.