Quotes About Adversity

Eager always still for the promising future which, even if twenty years are gone, is not the final word, nor the stiffening of old uncreative age. Always the promise, the hope, the dream, amid whatever poverty, war, disease and adversity – always persists the credulous human vision, of something better than that which is.

it is something even to live through hours of obligation now, without screaming: gently, gently, stoic one.

We grow. It hurts at first.

Enough to snuff the quick Of her small heat out, but before the weight Of stones and hills of stones could break Her down to mere quartz grit in that stony light She turned back.

The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.

Blame, justification, and complaining are like pills. They are nothing more than stress reducers. They alleviate the stress of failure.

WEALTH PRINCIPLE: The secret to success is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than any problem.

a setback is a setup for a comeback

Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.

Hardship can humble you, but it cannot break you unless you let it. Your instinct for survival will see you through if you're attuned to its frequency. Instinct will find a temporary stopgap without ever taking its sights off your larger goals. There's no greater way to hone your instincts than to overcome adversity.

These fragments I have shored against my ruins

We must learn to suffer more.

There is no water, so things are bad. If there were water, it would be better. But there is no water.

Leš što si ga lane zakopao u bašti Pušta li ve? izdanke? Ho?e li procvetati ove godine, Il' mu je nenadna stud leju uništila?

Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air

We are not here to triumph by fighting, by stratagem, or by resistance, Not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast And have conquered. We have only to conquer Now, by suffering.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without; For this is the law of life; and you must remember that while there is time of prosperity The people will neglect the Temple, and in time of adversity they will decry it.

why do we huddle together In a horrid amity of misfortune? why should we be implicated, brought in and brought together?

We most of us seem to live according to circumstance, But with people like him, there's something inside them That accounts for what happens to them.

These are the ones that suffer least: The aconite under the snow And the snowdrop crying for a moment in the wood.

So we face our final hours...and all that was once certain has become uncertain. Except for defeat. That, as always, is the end of all our stories.

Experience came easily enough, learning how not to suffer would have proved much more practical.

We survive. But when survival is the only goal, what do the survivors become? This

But a mouse can be brave. Small as they are, though, they learn it is wiser not to challenge the cat.