Quotes About Adversity

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

And he is by no means apt to make laments about things which cannot be helped, or requests about those which are trivial; because to be thus disposed with respect to these things is consequent only upon real anxiety about them.

Je ne suis pas plus ennemi qu'un autre des douceurs de la vie. Je ne suis pas un Don Quichotte qui a besoin de quêter les aventures. Je suis un être de raison qui ne fait que ce qu'il croit utile. La seule différence entre moi et les autres souverains, c'est que les difficultés les arrêtent et que j'aime à les surmonter quand il m'est démontré que le but est grand, noble, digne de moi et de la nation que je gouverne.

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Maintain your speed no matter what happens! For the tikbalang shall chase you --- I regret to say...to the ends of the earth!

There was something magnificent in dire tragedy, in the terror of it, in the necessity which it laid upon everybody to behave nobly and efficiently.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

It's me. I chose this. I chose all of this — this rock has been waiting for me my entire life. I've been moving towards it my whole life.

Mountains are the means, the man is the end. The goal is not to reach the top of the mountains, but to improve the man.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant. -Horace

But in some ways he didn't survive.

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.

Work is the best remedy for any shock

Both times he had won through, but he knew well enough that any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic.

throughout the flight, but there

Fortunately, human beings are extraordinarily resilient: it takes a pretty bad upbringing to do permanent damage.

windows of nonsurvivability

There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you.

I had neither kith nor kin in England, and was therefore as free as air -- or as free as an income of eleven shillings and sixpence a day will permit a man to be. Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

You wish to put me in the dark. I tell you that I will never be put in the dark. You wish to beat me. I tell you that you will never beat me.

Even the best of us are thrown off some- times.

Good old Watson! You are the one fixed point in a changing age. There's an east wind coming all the same, such a wind as never blew on England yet. It will be cold and bitter, Watson, and a good many of us may wither before its blast. But it's God's own wind none the less, and a cleaner, better, stronger land will lie in the sunshine when the storm has cleared.

The weak man becomes strong when he has nothing, for then only can he feel the wild, mad thrill of despair.