Quotes About Adversity

But maybe I was lucky, I find myself thinking. We've all got to have some kind of failure in life, and I had mine early. I got back on my feet. I learned that failing doesn't mean you are a failure; it just means you're a human being.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

Nothing great enters the life of mortals without a curse.

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness, Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through.

When misfortune comes, The wisest even lose their mother wit

To yield is grievous, but the obstinate soul That fights with Fate, is smitten grievously.

I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes

Of all ill, Self-chosen sorrows are the worst to bear.

But when a god             strikes harm, a worse man often foils his better.

just thinking of all your days to come, the bitterness, the life that rough mankind will thrust upon you.

To look on self-wrought woes, when no other has had a hand in them- this lays sharp pangs to the soul.

Like father like daughter, passionate, wild . . . she hasn't learned to bend before adversity.

Invited, not inflicted; of all wounds, those that seem willful are the worst to bear.

Harsh ways are taught by harshness.

Like a star his envied fortune mounted beaming far and wide: Now he sinks in seas of anguish, whelmed beneath a raging tide.

Never bring them down to the level of my pains.

No man will ever be rooted from the earth as brutally as you.

Your great good fortune, true, it was your ruin.

Acceptance—that is the great lesson suffering teaches

But death was a wind too strong for that.

If you are the man he says you are, believe me, you were born for pain.

No wonder you suffer twice over, the pain of your wounds, the lasting grief of pain.

and now a plague has struck the city.

tell them I'll do everything. God help us, we will see our triumph—or our fall.