Quotes About Adversity

Impossible. It is true that I cannot love or be happy in my country, but I can suffer and die in it, and perhaps for it; that is always something. Let the misfortunes of my country be my own, and since our people are not all united by a noble ideal, since our hearts do not beat faster to the same name, at least our common unhappiness may unite me with them. I shall weep with them over our sorrows, and let the same misfortunes oppress all our hearts.

To fall with the head high and the brow serene is not to fall. It is to triumph. The sad thing is to fall with the stain of dishonor.

To fight alone against the world is not courage but foolhardiness. No one blames a pilot who takes refuge in port when the storm begins to blow. It is not cowardice to duck under a bullet; what is wrong is to defy it only to fall and never rise again.

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.

Facing the press is not easy, but because you have to go, you have to try to take a lot of positive things for yourself from these face-to-face meetings.

I was nine or 10 years old and my father was sacked on Christmas Day. He was a manager, the results had not been good, he lost a game on December 22 or 23. On Christmas Day, the telephone rang and he was sacked in the middle of our lunch.

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The only way to succeed is to make people hate you.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

The soul, secured in her existence, smiles at the drawn dagger, and defies its point.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

The ill are damped with pain and anguish at the sight of all that is laudable, lovely, or happy.

A misery is not to be measure from the nature of the evil, but from the temper of the sufferer.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Rahmat sering datang kepada kita dalam bentuk kesakitan, kehilangan dan kekecewaan. Tetapi kalau kita sabar, kita segera akan melihat bentuk aslinya.

Don't forget in the darkness what you learned in the light.

Life-the way it really is-is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.

You enter the forest at the darkest point, where there is no path. Where there is a way or path, it is someone else's path. You are not on your own path. If you follow someone else's way, you are not going to realize your potential.

As you proceed through life, following your own path, birds will shit on you. Don't bother to brush it off. Getting a comedic view of your situation gives you spiritual distance. Having a sense of humor saves you.

Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out.

Facing it always facing it that's the way to get through.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.