Quotes About Adversity

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared; all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.

Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

But of course, isn't it always the case that the higher you fly, the farther you fall? And I would indeed fall, farther than I could have possibly imagined.

But she was different now, wasn't she? Stronger, bolder, and indeed more worldly.

But I'd course, isn't it always the case that the higher you fly, the farther you fall?

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall

A champion isn't about how much they win, it's about how they recover from their downs.

A champion is defined not by their wins but by how they recover when they fall. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does. I've had to learn to fight all my life-got to learn to keep smiling.

I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins,but by how they can recover when they fall.

I don't like to lose - at anything… yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how He teaches us.

When God gives you a present, a power, a talent, the Devil also hands you a poisoned apple, so as not to be outdone.

Die Prophezeiung muss grauenvoll gewesen sein", sagte Arina, um nach einer Weile hinzuzufügen. "Die Zeiten damals waren sehr schwer." "Leichte Zeiten gibt es nicht", stellte Fan klar.

I've come to the conclusion that there are two types of people. The fucked up good and the fucked up bad. You see, everybody's fucked up. Everybody has had traumas in their lives to deal with. With most people these traumas mess them up inside... but a few people they come through even better adjusted somehow... I mean, they haven't developed damaging emotional problems.

A little misery is good for the soul.

Look at anybody you admire — from Mother Teresa to Nelson Mandela — and you'll find that their life was filled with great pain. You'll also see that they met the deep challenge of that pain with love. In so doing, they found the call that defined their lives.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat." It

Abraham Lincoln comes from nothing, has no education, no money, lives in the middle of nowhere on the frontier. And despite the fact that he suffers one tragedy and one setback after another, through sheer force of will, he becomes something extraordinary: not only the president but the person who almost single-handedly united the country.