Adversity Quote by William James

A man of sense may be in haste, but can never be in a hurry.

— Lord Chesterfield

When a man is in the right path, he must persevere.

— P. T. Barnum

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

— Winston Churchill

He who hopes to avoid all failure and misfortune is trying to live in a fairyland; the wise man realistically accepts failures as a…

— Wilferd Peterson

Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless.

— Eugene Ionesco

A man who does not lose his reason over certain things has none to lose.

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.

— John Burroughs

“Man is certain of nothing but his ability to fail”

— Ken Kesey

Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent in this…

— Arthur Helps

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained,…

— Confucius

He who accepts life for what it is and never allows himself to be overwhelmed by it does not need to seek refuge for…

— Ludwig von Mises

A man who is always ready to believe what is told him will never do well, especially a businessman.

— Petronius