Quotes About Adversity

Ad Astra per Aspera—through rough ways to the stars

As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce weeds pressed in to destroy the pampered nursling's of man.

Thy debts are thine enemies who have run thee out of Babylon', Sira had said. Yes, it was so. Why had I refused to stand my ground like a man? Why had I permitted my wife to go back to her father? Why had I been weak like a slave if I had not the soul of one? 'Then a strange thing happened. All the world seemed to be of a different color as though I had been looking at it through a colored stone which had suddenly been removed. At last I saw the true values in life.

You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Hadst fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one, honored among thy townspeople. But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thou hast gone down until thou art a slave in Syria.

Through my misfortunes, my trials and my success

his very good intentions may bring him into difficulties.

in spite of his misfortune?

He wanted others to benefit from his own bitter experiences.

When mental [illness] increases until it reaches the danger point, do not exhaust yourself by efforts to trace back to original causes. Better accept them as inevitable and save your strength to fight against the effects.

A quelque chose malheur est bon, pour qui sait réfléchir.

Based on the experience of my life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

Some blows fall too heavy upon those too fragile.

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized.

I was back to feeling myself which, believe me, is no picnic.

Sometimes with all the teasing his days were subtenable.

Lightning strikes the slaughterhouse flagpole and the antelope scatter like minnows as the rain begins to fall, and finally, having lost what was to be lost, my torn and black heart rebels, saying enough already, enough, this is as low as I go.

It was just a strong feeling in my hart that it was no gud for Foxes to give up and just be ded on perpose.

Our grief must be defeated; it must not become our master, and make us ineffective, and put us even deeper into the ditch.

Based on my experience of life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, If it's not broke, don't fix it. And would go even further, to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

Based on my experience of life, which I have not exactly hit out of the park, I tend to agree with that thing about, if it's not broke, don't fix it. And I would go even further to: Even if it is broke, leave it alone, you'll probably make it worse.

He was leaving here broken, awed, humbled, diminished.

Ruinmore, ruinmore, we felt, must endeavor not to ruinmore.

Sometimes in life the foundation upon which one stands will give tilt, and everything one has previously believed and held dear will begin sliding about, and suddenly all things will seem strange and new.

No one who has ever done anything worth doing has gone uncriticized. As regards the matter at hand (as regards him), I am, at least, above any— Thus thought Mr. Lincoln. But