Quotes About Adversity

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A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blinding credulous rage at the reversal of their lot and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.

It's an uncommonly dangerous thing to be left without any padding against the shafts of disease.

Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense.

I thought it was all over with me, and there was nothing to try for–only things to endure.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm.

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

Poor Maggie sat down again, with the music all chased out of her soul, and the seven small demons all in again.

a woman, let her be as good as she may, has got to put up with the life her husband makes for her. Your mother has had to put up with a good deal because of me.

Tom's mind was set to the expectation of the worst that could happen—not death, but disgrace.

A woman's no business wi' being so clever; it'll turn to trouble, I doubt.

The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food—it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on.

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

It is but once that we can know our worst sorrows.

she had begun a new life in which she embraced humiliation.

If boys and men are to be welded together in the glow of transient feeling, they must be made of metal that will mix, else they inevitably fall asunder when the heat dies out.

People who seem to enjoy their ill-temper have a way of keeping it in fine condition by inflicting privations on themselves.

Surely the golden hours are turning gray And dance no more, and vainly strive to run: I see their white locks streaming in the wind— Each face is haggard as it looks at me, Slow turning in the constant clasping round Storm-driven.

Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand-- Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another.

La vida podía significar angustia, podía significar desesperación; pero ¡ay!, tenía que aferrarse a ella, aunque le sangraran los dedos; sus pies tenían que pegarse al firme suelo para que la luz del sol volviera a calentarlos, no caer por un abismo desconocido donde ella pudiera incluso añorar las desgracias familiares

I have always believed that a human being could withstand almost anything if he were just allowed to read.