Quotes About Adversity

If I must have an ill, may it be real, That I may meet it eye to eye and fight, And wheresoever it may strength reveal Get after it with all my main and might. The woe that but impends and wears the mind With worry deep and most vexatious care, Is harder fighting than the realler kind, For when you come to strike—it isn't there!

I like the man who takes the stones Upon his rocky road With smiling lips instead of groans, Whate'er his heavy load Who seizes each as on he goes, And neatly crumbles it, And turns his share of pebbly woes To stores of inner grit.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

Life is cruel enough without unnecessary brutality. Fight it.

Carl's concept of freedom had come to be embodied by a mariner in a storm, wholly responsible for himself, accountable to no one else, asking no quarter from the sea, measuring his worth by his immediate actions.

He had a simple maxim for all competitive or adversarial situations: work out what the other party least wants you to do, and then do it. Relieving your feelings was fun, but the best course of action was to make things as difficult as possible for the person trying to make things difficult for you.

As a politician, you have to deal with someone wanting you to fail every day. I think I prefer being in a situation where generally people are rooting for me, and if they aren't rooting for me, they aren't out there to see my downfall. I respect the people who have the stomach for it.

Whatever gets you through the night is all right.

You ever think that life is something that happens and that you're not ever completely prepared for?

Children don't have hearts yet, not really. They haven't been hurt into the need for one.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oaks.

What's true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

He advised, "Whenever you fall, pick up something.

What you choose to do in your life, how you choose it, and how you deal with Work-domain difficulties (including being out of work or having to work two jobs to make ends meet) are also revealing of your personality style.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

I have never been among those who think that it is better to be dead than to leave Rome. In fact, I have fled Rome many times in order to preserve my life.

Failure's a natural part of life.

Pada satu tingkatan, mereka menderita dan akibat wajar yang ditimbulkan–ketabahan, kekuatan, independensi yang kukuh–merupakan sumber kebanggaan; di sisi lain, merupakan sumber rasa iri.

He carried Hell with him, as we all did, like a little load on our backs that we hardly noticed most of the time, or like a huge great hump of suffering that bent us over with its weight.

In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

I guess our fate is up to us now. And we've been there before, of course. There's something quite comforting about it in a strange way. We've learnt a few things. We know we've got a few things going for us. A bit of imagination, a bit of guts sometimes, a bit of spark.

We survived, Ellie, we survived.

I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.