Quotes About Adversity

He who limps is still walking.

The greater the dark, the easier to be a star.

He who limps still walks.

Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote.

Your enemy is presenting you with new options and challenges every day. If you respond in a wholly expected way each time, you will become predictable, and a predictable enemy is much easier to defeat than one who treats his adversaries to a surprise on a regular basis.

Sometimes it seems to us that that's all life is… just rearranging furniture and keeping house on the deck of the Titanic.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Churchill, put down his cigar and agreed, "When I hear a man say that his childhood was the happiest time of his life, I think, my friend you have had a pretty poor life.

How can a country stumble from disaster to disaster only to find itself propelled so high in the end?

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Suddenly, you could find yourself trapped and alone, in a situation that was out of control. It was like being trapped in a cage with an angry bear—in fact, the most dangerous part of a tornado was often referred to as the bear's cage. And it could all happen in the blink of an eye. Even so, Tim kept trying to pilot the van closer and closer to the storm.

Really, boy, unless you're ready to deal with the monster, you shouldn't go looking under the bed.

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yet it may serve to show that courage is often nothing but inverted weakness.

But spite is a wonderful thing for keeping people alive.

Cómo vivían al margen de todas las crisis y los problemas que oprimen el corazón, pero a la vez lo ensanchan!

The woman who had been born in an imperial palace, and then, as Queen of France, had had hundreds of rooms in her dwelling house, was now imprisoned in a tiny basement cell, its walls streaming with damp, and its grated window half occluded.

Odvaha není ?asto nic jiného než obrácená slabost.

NeÅ¡tÄ›stí ?iní zranitelným a neustálé utrpení nespravedlivým.

Never have I experienced in a people and in myself so powerful a surge of life as at that period when our very existence and survival were at stake.

Do you still have all the ideals, all the ideals that you took to that distant world with you? Are they all still intact, or have some of them died or withered away? Haven't they been torn out of you by force and flung in the dirt, where thousands of wheels carrying vehicles to their owners' destination in life crushed them? Or have you lost none of them?

El hombre actual está preso en esa red desde la que cree navegar, pero la verdadera navegación necesita de días de calma en el mar, en los que nada pase, en los que se vida solo para esperar y contemplar, alimentando el anhelo de lo extraordinario con algo extraño ya hoy, la paciencia. Navegar trae también tempestades que amenazan con hundirnos, pero que no destensan la voluntad de seguir adelante.

Denn nur Ehrgeiz entzündet sich am Zufall des Erfolges und leichten Gelingens, nichts aber erhebt dermaßen herrlich das Herz als der Untergang eines Menschen im Kampf gegen die unbesiegbare Übermacht des Geschicks, diese allezeit großartigste aller Tragödien, die manchmal ein Dichter und tausendmal das Leben gestaltet.

Zweig hace resucitar una vez más la figura trágica del capitán Scott, que nos mostró que en el hundimiento hay gloria y que puede otorgarse vida a otros mientras uno pierde la suya propia.