Quotes about Adversity

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish.

Keep your head clear and know how to suffer like a man. Or a fish, he thought.

The man isn't born for defeats.He can fall from grace,but he cannot be defeated.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, Impossible, when orders came?

Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated

There's something romantic about poverty when you're young and hopeful.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

Every man of character will have that character questioned. Every man of honor and courage will be faced with unjust criticism, but never forget that unjust criticism has no impact whatsoever upon the truth. And the only sure way to avoid criticism is to do nothing and be nothing.

Does adversity build character? . . . It does not. Almost all people can stand adversity of one sort or another. If you want to test a person's character, give him power.

Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

Every single day for the rest of your life, somebody is going to push you in the pool. And you'd better decide now how you're going to act when it happens.