Quotes About Adversity

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose.

If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you.

When life was worrying about a car payment or a rent payment and a bill, you're so consumed with that, you really don't have time to know yourself. That's surviving and getting by.

The more we shelter children from every disappointment, the more devastating future disappointments will be.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.

I probably sound like sixteen going on clinically depressed," says Billy now, "but my childhood hadn't exactly been all noodle salad and laughs.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Despite of it all, the Negro remains… cool, strong, imperturbable, and cheerful.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

Given this conjunction of circumstances, it is little wonder that the story of the last centuries of Roman power is a long tale of pestilence.

Of supreme importance is the fact that failure of morale is more likely to occur among those who have lived softly than among people who have known hardship throughout their lives.

And you?" "Oh, I will go back to Century House and start again. And go back each night to my small flat and listen to my music and eat my baked beans. And you will go back to Nikki, my friend, and hold her very tight, and write your books and forget all this. Hamburg, Vienna, Malta, Tripoli, Cyprus—forget it. It's all over.

It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

Adversity is the touchstone of friendship.

He that seeks trouble never misses.

peace isn't just where there is no noise, no trouble, no hard work. Peace is when you can be in the midst of all those things and still be calm.

Traté de ahogar mis penas... pero las condenadas aprendieron a nadar.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows. But now the damned things have learned to swim ,and now decency and good behavior weary me.