Quotes About Adversity

The province of philosophy is not so much to prevent calamities befalling as to demonstrate that they are blessings when they have taken place.

The challenge is to resist circumstances. Any idiot can be happy in a happy place, but moral courage is required to be happy in a hellhole.

Life has a funny way of helping you out when you think that everything's gone wrong.

Conquered people tend to be witty.

What one decides to do in crisis depends on one's philosophy of life, and that philosophy cannot be changed by an incident. If one hasn't any philosophy in crises, others make the decision.

I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all.

All that philosophy can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortunes.

Bite your tongue. Get a cinder in your eye. When you feel good, you feel nothing.

Life is sad, life is a bust, all you can do is do what you must.

Everything may happen.

Misfortunes, in fine, cannot be avoided; but they may be sweetened, if not overcome, and our lives made happy by philosophy.

No one can tell what the future holds, you're backs to the corner, you make the choice of how it goes.

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

Bad news is just an excuse.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?

My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody's trying to kill me is a good day in my book.

We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid, or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder. You always have the choice.

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby becomes a monster.

Adversity's sweet milk philosophy.

Sometimes by failing we find a better opportunity to win.

Sometimes life may look complicated than it is, but you'll have to play it just the way it is and make it proper, the way you would wish it to be in your own words.

I was the Titanic and the iceberg all at once.