Quotes About Adversity

Mother was not as easily read. Her life since early youth had been a series of roles imposed by circumstance and other people's needs.

Greece was falling apart. The streets of Athens were crawling with cats and dogs that people had abandoned because they could no longer afford pet food. But our hosts were jubilant. Their family didn't seem like a burden; it seemed like a party. The idea bloomed in my head that being ruled by something other than my own wishes and wanderlust might be a pleasure, a release.

Make peace with the fact that there will be those who bitch no matter what you do. You might as well do what makes you happy, so at least when you hear the bitching, you'll know that the event they're griping about was exactly the one you wanted.

better not bring up a lion inside your city, But if you must, then humour all his moods.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

Chorus of women: […] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

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Das Ziel des Weisen ist nicht Glück zu erlangen, sondern Unglück zu vermeiden.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Even in adversity, nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle

Education is an ornament in prosperity & a refuge in adversity.

To die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a cowrd; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome, and such a man endures death not because it is noble but to fly from evil

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune.

But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward;

It is in our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light -Aristotle