Adversity Quote by Victor Hugo

“He who has not been a stubborn accuser in prosperity should hold his peace in the face of ruin.”

— Victor Hugo

“What pleases us in those who are rising is less pleasing in those who are falling. We do not admire the combat when there…

— Victor Hugo

“No man in public position can, under penalty of forfeiting the right to the respect of those whose regard he most values, fail as…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“For the wanting to be good,in defiance of justice, is one of mankind's greatest weaknesses.”

— Joyce Carol Oates

“He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still Which he may adhere to, yet disown, For reasons to himself best…

— Samuel Butler

“He was proud of his hatred as of everything else. Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt, are not…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“He has written about equality, the perfectibility of human nature, and the essential goodness of mankind for many years -- he judges others by…

— Patrick O'Brian

“He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing…

— Thomas Paine

“A man must wage war on himself to defeat his weaknesses and conquer his strengths”

— Dennis Adonis III

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds…

— Theodore Roosevelt

“Like his son, he too was under a false presumption that he could get justice by the way of law in a country where…

— Anurag Shrivastava

“He was teaching that people who trust only in themselves can never find peace or contentment. People’s possessions can imprison them in a world…

— Jim M. Perdue