Quotes About Adversity

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests. Can you understand that? Can you understand that in averting the pitfalls and miseries that beset man, Eternity prevents men from finding their own bitter and better solutions, the real solutions that come from conquering difficulty, not avoiding it?

I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.

There is no merit to discipline under ideal circumstances. I must have it in the face of death or it is worthless.

Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy.

But he no longer feared the fear! It was not something to run from, that fear, but something to fight.

Stoop, then, or you will be beaten to your knees. Stoop voluntarily, and you may save a remnant. You have depended on metal and power and they have sustained you as far as they could. You have ignored mind and morale and they have failed you.

No problem is insoluble in all conceivable circumstances.

He would do worse than his worst if he had to.

A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.

La forma más fácil de solucionar un problema es negar su existencia.

You can't maintain discipline that way." Mallow said icily, "I can. There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

Groups, like individuals, will rise to strange heights in answer to a challenge, and vegetate in the absence of a challenge.

Surely it is better that the immoral learn morality through adversity than that the moral forget morality in prosperity.

If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice.

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quickstand and beating it with a stick.

Battling a sickness of the spirit was like standing in a quicksand and beating it with a stick.

Being helpless is one of the things that isn't altogether amusing. - Gilbert

There's no merit in discipline under ideal circumstances. I'll have it in the face of death, or it's useless.

We can't give up just because the Universe does.

Pero ella había muerto. Su matrimonio sólo duró cinco años; y después comprendió que sólo podría vivir contra aquel vago y temible enemigo que le privaba de su dignidad de hombre al controlar su destino, que convertía la vida en una triste lucha contra un fin predestinado, que hacía de todo el universo un juego de ajedrez odioso y mortal.

to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect—but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

en la Historia no hay finales felices, solo momentos críticos que se superan.

Con toda seguridad es preferible que el inmoral aprenda la moral a través de la adversidad, a que el moral olvide serlo en la prosperidad.