Quotes About Adversity

Overrun on every side, stoicism, faithful to its principles, had the elegance to die without a struggle.

birth, source of every infirmity, every disaster.

We can endure any truth, however destructive

Every season is an ordeal; nature changes and renews herself only in order to scourge us.

I am far from trying to pervert your hopes: life will take care of that. Like everyone else, you will proceed from one forfeiture to the next.

Sólo somos nosotros mismos por la suma de nuestros fracasos.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

When this ultimate crisis comes... when there is no way out - that is the very moment when we explode from within and the totally other emerges: the sudden surfacing of a strength, a security of unknown origin, welling up from beyond reason, rational expectation, and hope.

Só é saudável em nós aquilo pelo que não somos especificamente nós mesmos: são nossas aversões que nos individualizam; nossas tristezas que nos concedem um nome; nossas perdas que nos fazem possuidores de nosso eu. Só somos nós mesmos pela soma de nossos fracassos.

The one who wants to be an eagle that flies, who wants to be a worm that crawls but does not scream when someone step on it "

And falling's just another way to fly.

A wounded deer leaps the highest.

Maybe the thing to do after you roll the dice-and lose-is simply pick them up and roll them again.

Irish heroes, for one reason or another, have come off, it must be owned, but poorly before the bar of history.

Failure is ever impending.

The courage which strengthens an enemy and which so loses, not only the present battle, but many after battles, is a heavy curse to men and nations.

There is nothing in the life before us comparable in interest to the tragic, gradual cracking of the great mind; the overtasking of the great capital, and the ensuing failure; the spectacle of heaving genius breaking in the contact with misfortune.

A person can do anything whom has nothing to lose.

Life is no guarantee so we must be prepared to face the upcoming challenges.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Làm gì có vi?c s? m?nh ?ã ??nh s?n, n?u th? ta c? tiêu c?c, b?t ??ng m?c cho s? ph?n run r?i hay sao?

One must say Yes to life, and embrace it wherever it is found -- and it is found in terrible places.

I can conceive of no Negro native to this country who has not, by the age of puberty, been irreparably scarred by the conditions of his life.

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.