Quotes about Adversity
If my future were black, it was better surely to face it like a man than to attempt to brighten it by mere will-o'-the-wisps of the imagination.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
If you think the X-Men are going to be push-overs, think again! Far better men than you have pledged their destruction ... yet the X-Men are still here.
- Chris Claremont
Disaster appears, to crush one man now, but afterward another.
- Euripides
When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God.
- Malcolm X
It takes a man to make a devil.
- Henry Ward Beecher
The methods by which men have met and conquered trouble, or been slain by it, are the same in every age.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Trouble teaches men how much there is in manhood.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.
- Henry Ward Beecher
As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.
- Herman Melville
They biggest man with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest man with the smallest mind-think big anyway.
- John Maxwell
Whatever come we have to meet it.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.
- George Clooney