Quotes About Adversity

But leave me to my own absurdity, leave me to suffer this - dreadful thing. I will suffer nothing as great as death without glory.

Bu durumda dostlar?m, ne ak?ll? ne dindar olmak mümkündür; kötülüÄŸün içinde bizi kötülüÄŸe zorlayan güç çok büyüktür.

make grief a weapon!

Twere best, if anything is best in evil times. What's soonest done, is best, when all is ill.

Nada, bludnica velika, mnogim ljudima pomaže, a mnogim je dim nestalnih, praznih želja; ne znadu što im gamiže, dok žarki oganj noge im ne oprži. Slavljenu re? pametno neko izusti: kad u jad koga baci bog, on za zlo to ne uzima, no dobra traži u tome; a kratak trenut boravi izvan jada.

PHI.: All winds are fair to him who flies from woe.

I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.

Many and various are the things to which a man may feel himself drawn, but one thing there is to which no man ever felt himself drawn in any way, that is, to suffering and humiliation. This we men think we ought to shun as far as possible, and in any case that we must be compelled to it.

If something is eating at you, you gotta find a way to use it.

Life is not tried it is merely survived if you're standing outside the fire.

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.

I feel like I have a Ph.D. in life, I'm a survivor. I've not only survived, I've thrived.

I know how absurd things can get. I've had years where I've had questionable things going on in my life.

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.

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

Don't look at the downside of everything that comes along. It helps life move along so much smoother and nicer.

I would not call it a difficult life, really. I just had a lot of challenges at a very young age.

Well, with each character that I play in my life as an actor, I try to figure out how to find the challenge.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

My life could have been so grim really, really grim.

For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.