Quotes About Adversity

I've been there; I've been in the minority before. It humbles the exalted. But that's all right.

I am in a small minority as a black female with a disability. But I've shown that even with conditions like MS, it's not the setback that it has to be.

Being an African-American, minority, or poor, you get in a tough situation and you don't get a fair shake.

Sometimes, I feel I am really blessed to be blind because I probably would not last a minute if I were able to see things.

I don't think you can expect someone to be personally attacked day after day, minute by minute, and sit back.

No mud, no lotus.

We have to learn to become solid and stable like an oak tree, and not be blown from side to side by the storm.

It is exactly in the muddy water that the lotus grows and blooms.

We study better in hostile surroundings than in hospitable ones, a student is always well advised to choose a hostile place of study rather than a hospitable one, for the hospitable place will rob him of the better part of his concentration for his studies, the hostile place on the other hand will allow him total concentration, since he must concentrate on his studies to avoid despairing

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Anyone can bear a catastrophe, once it has occurred, by at least seeming to avoid it through keeping busy, no matter which work routine he forces himself into.

After all, there is nothing but failure. If at least we have the will to fail we make progress, and in everything, in each and everything, we must at least have the will to fail unless we wish to perish at a very early stage, which of course cannot be the intention behind our existence.

I am the happiest man alive. I have that in me that can convert poverty to riches, adversity to prosperity, and I am more invulnerable than Archilles; Fortune hath not one place to hit me.

That hope never left us, and it sustained us in the years to come, despite the fact that we had no good reason to expect our situation to improve.

The question always is, what does misfortune really tell us?

Now we know, as she does, that she can carry on, that discovering that men can't be counted on doesn't mean the world ends, that she's a whole person.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it Tess?

If a way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

Misfortune is a fine opiate to personal terror.

By experience, says Roger Ascham, we find out a short way by a long wandering. Not seldom that long wandering unfits us for further travel, and of what use is our experience to us then?

How I have tried and tried to be a splendid woman, and how destiny has been against me! ...I do not deserve my lot! ...O, the cruelty of putting me into this ill-conceived world! I was capable of much; but I have been injured and blighted and crushed by things beyond my control! O, how hard it is of Heaven to devise such tortures for me, who have done no harm to heaven at all!

People who have always gone right don't know half as much about the nature and ways of going right as those do who have gone wrong.

How unexpected [are] the attacks of destiny!

Humanity appears upon the scene, hand in hand with trouble