Quotes About Adversity

Lo que comenzó mal, rara vez y con muchísima dificultad concluirá bien.

For Solomon says that, 'He who is not patient shall meet with great harm.

Los amigos que un hombre hace en la prosperidad creo que le convertirán en enemigos en la adversidad

Being good and sweet in this life is enough to attract evil

It is also true that when a people, long kept in a boiling cauldron of oppression, suddenly find the lid removed, they spend their remaining energy battling chimerical enemies.

Two things define you: Your patience when you have nothing and your attitude when you have everything.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Bear it like a man, even if you feel it like an ass.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.

The weak may not be admired and hero-worshipped; but they are by no means disliked or shunned; and they never seem to have the least difficulty in marrying people who are too good for them. They may fail in emergencies; but life is not one long emergency: it is mostly a string of situations for which no exceptional strength is needed, and with which even rather weak people can cope if they have a stronger partner to help them out.

It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

Everybody has choices, Mother. The poorest girl alive may not be able to choose between being Queen of England or Principal of Newnham; but she can choose between rag-picking and flower-selling, according to her taste. People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

Making Life means making trouble

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

No es ningún mérito sufrir

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

and after all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. The people who get on in this world are they who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find. them, make them

Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.

Life is tough, then you die.

As it stands right now, I lead Richard Pryor in heart attacks, two to one. However, Richard still leads me, one to nothing, in burning yourself up.