Quotes About Adversity

then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest."23

The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;They took the spear—but left the shield.

Jak raz, na pocz?tku trafi si? do jakiej? szufladki, rzadko znajdzie si? sposób, ?eby wspi?? si? wy?ej.

Thus are the changes wrought in a man's life—that courage is treasured more than comfort and, in that choice, victory is gained.

Emily and Fanny are doing their best to remain poker-stiff, firmly staring in their upright palanquins. But two hours on an elephant is as much as either of them can stand, and—after four times as long as that—they pine, they simply ache for the opportunity to complain, even more than the chance to rest.

If the people starve themselves in this manner then they will be unable to withstand the cold of winter or the heat of summer and countless numbers of them will grow ill and die.

Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.

Just because something bears the aspect of the inevitable one should not, therefore, go along willingly with it.

Me and Schopenhauer. Sometimes being German seems to come with some serious disadvantages.

But in my wretched efforts to stay alive at almost any cost I could still hurt and be hurt in my turn, and as long as death's black barrel organ was playing it seemed I would have to dance to the cheerless, doom-filled tune that was turning inexorably on the drum, like some liveried monkey with a terrified rictus on its face and a tin cup in its hand. That didn't make me unusual; just German.

Kottbusser Tor was the kind of area that had worn about as well as a music-hall poster, and Admiralstrasse, Number 43 was the kind of place where the rats wore ear-plugs and the cockroaches had nasty coughs.

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Why should I let the toad workSquat on my life?Can't I use my wit as a pitchforkAnd drive the brute off?

Be wise;Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

the Basil Spence Syndrome. When Coventry Cathedral was going up and in the public eye, he went through a lean period when he wasn't offered any jobs at all because people thought he wouldn't have time for anything else.

Nobody wants trouble,' said Chandni. 'Trouble just find us.

Ni känner väl till släkten Pennyroyals motto: 'När det hettar till gömmer sig förståndigt folk under stora möbler'?

But that's what bravery is, my dear. The overcoming of fear. If you're not afraid, it doesn't count.

But who is set up for the impossible that is going to happen? Who is set up for tragedy and the incomprehensibility of suffering? Nobody. The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy—that is every man's tragedy.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

Problems are there to be solved. How dull life would be without them.