Quotes about Adversity

I wish I had a stone for the knife," the old man said after he had checked the lashing on the oar butt. "I should have brought a stone." You should have brought many things, he thought. But you did not bring them, old man. Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.

He wants to in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.

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.