Quotes About Adversity

We are one people—our enemies have made us one whether we will or not, as has repeatedly happened in history. Affliction binds us together, and thus united, we suddenly discover our strength. Yes, we are strong enough to form a State, and, indeed, a model State.

In the mighty vortex of the world's history, which inexorably crushes all peoples that are not as hard and as flexible as steel, such a nation could not permanently maintain itself.

Nowadays most people kick with the pricks.

Wenn aber in Zeiten wie den heutigen die Not am höchsten ist, öffnet sich der Himmel und schleudert sein Feuer auf die, die ohnehin verloren sind.

A lady might feel fear, but she must not give in to it, or so her governess had taught her.

Like a double-edge sword, success cuts two ways.

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances.

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

Tugging all day at perverse life:The indignity of it!

What's madness but nobility of soul at odds with circumstance?

The stones were sharp, The wind came at my back; Walking along the highway, Mincing like a cat.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checked by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Have you got a problem? Do what you can where you are with what you've got.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

Black care rarely sits behind a rider whose pace is fast enough.