Quotes About Adversity

He has access to limited outrage. Sooner than we expect him to, he accepts his terrifying new state and goes on living, sad, peeved, but not rebellious; that would be impolite.

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

We were low, lost, an object of ridicule, had almost nothing left, were failing, must take some action to halt our fall, and restore ourselves to ourselves. hans vollman

Disease, then, is one of those bad experiences that turns information into knowledge and knowledge into wisdom. The bad experiences that make you love yourself and your body and the world. And make you know that you are in a game that has to have a happy ending.

difficulté d'être.

George Steiner

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve. America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world. And no one will keep that light from shining.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny

It is a much easier and less distressing thing to draw remonstrances in a comfortable room by a good fireside than to occupy a cold bleak hill and sleep under frost and snow without cloaths or blankets.

It is best to be silent, for there is nothing more certain than that it is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends.

Ce sont les échecs de la vie qui attirent, qui ont attiré l'attention sur la vie. Toute connaissance a sa source dans la réflexion sur un échec de la vie.

Ni los que lo tuvieron casi todo ni los que no tuvieron casi nada triunfaron en la vida.

Pero nestes tempos e nestas latitudes, cada vez hai máis xente que non é rica nin pobre: soñan coa riqueza e poderían facerse ricos: é aí onde empezan as súas desgracias.

They were both heavy, with the heaviness of people who are constantly struggling with the patient forces of nature.

You have a genius for bringing trouble upon yourself

Nevertheless, she did not weep, because, for one thing, it would have made her eyes red, and another, it would be of very little use.

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.

And I am very uncomfortable in these clothes. I think too that I am a little frightened. There is not even M. Davenant left. I shall be forced to eat pudding, and that woman will kiss me.' She heaved a large sigh. 'Life is very hard,' she remarked sadly.

When things are as bad as ever they can be you cease to mind them much. You set your teeth and battle with the fates

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments of crisis.