Quotes about Strength In Adversity
What can that man fear who takes care to please a Being that is able to crush all his adversaries?
— Joseph Addison
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
— Phillips Brooks
The longer I live the more I think of the quality of fortitude... men who fall, pick themselves up and stumble on, fall again, and are trying to get back up when they die.
— Theodore Roosevelt
For there is surely nothing more beautiful in this world than the sight of a lone man facing single-handedly a half a ton of angry pot roast!
— Tom Lehrer
Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is.
— Thomas a Kempis
If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world.
— Mahatma Gandhi
What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?
— Mahatma Gandhi
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man that is afraid is never a man.
— Henry Ward Beecher
An exhausted man easily falls prey to the adversary.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Whatever come we have to meet it.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The best lesson my mom taught me was how to be scrappy.
— George Clooney