parthy adel Adversity causes some men to break, and others to break records.

Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to tremendous difficulties.

Difficulties break some men but make others. No axe is sharp enough to cut the soul of a sinner who keeps on trying, one armed with the hope that he will rise even in the end.

Difficulty shows what men are.

It is difficulties that show what men are.

It is difficult circumstances that show real men.

Each man has a breaking point, no matter how strong his spirit. Somewhere, deep inside him, there is a flaw that only the fickle cruelty of fate can find.

The luckiest men die worthwhile deaths

It took men quite a while to have the courage to look at things differently.

There are some men whom a staggering emotional shock, so far from making them mental invalids for life, seems, on the other hand, to awaken, to galvanize, to arouse into an almost incredible activity of soul.

Uncommon Experiences Create Uncommon Men.

And in that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times.

Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.

There are men who are too fragile to shatter. I belong to them too.