Quotes about Adversity
Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
- Mae West
One false idea is that anyone can hurt you. Events can ruin your reputation, take your money, mistreat you, revenge itself upon you, deceive, betray, abandon you, but cannot hurt you.
- Vernon Howard
Organized money hates me--and I welcome their hatred!
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
- George Bernard Shaw
I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.
- Napoleon Hill
God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.
- Muhammad Ali
Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage.
- Aristotle
A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!"
- Tony Evans
Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning.
- Conan O'Brien
A mother is the truest friend we have when trials, heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity.
- Washington Irving
Progress is the mother of all problems.
- GK Chesterton
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the aeroplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
- Henry Ford