Quotes about Adversity

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.

A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.

People always think that the worst time of my life must have been after the German Grand Prix crash in 1976, which put me in a coma and left me with severe burns. But it wasn't.