Edwin Louis Cole Quotes

I'm not someone who is going to give in to a lot of pressure. I've always understood that everything is not always going to be good.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

In a crisis, you separate the men from the boys.

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside me.

The harder the world, the fiercer the honour.

In the worst of times the best among us never lose their moral compass, and that is how they emerge relatively unscathed.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

A man of conviction is often more to be desired than a man of experience.

Everyone is handed adversity in life. No one's journey is easy. It's how they handle it that makes people unique.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

If you don't stick to your values when they're being tested, they're not values: they're hobbies.

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

If you don't have enemies, you don't have character.

I always think that struggle can bring out the best in people - or the worst.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

I pray God I may never be brought to the melancholy trial; but, if ever I should, it will then be known how far I can reduce to practice principles which I know to be founded in truth.

He who does not tire, tires adversity.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.