Quotes About Adversity

I think that sometimes the only thing that can make you laugh is accepting the idea that there's no way out.

You can go on losing after loss.

So little by little I climb towards life, in the straitjacket of my prison. I don't waste an ounce of air or sun. I explore I bring to light.

He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination--and taxes."

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober not to make us sorry but wise.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Strength is the outcome of need.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

Count your blessings. Don't confuse mere inconveniences with real problems.

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all. Things happen to you and just let them happen.

Life is full of crises, we all know that. It's how we learn, how we grow. They help form character, mould the man (or woman), as it were. As an opposite to good times, they even help us appreciate life a little more; and a person without strife is a person without passion, for trauma both tests and strengthens moral fibre, becomes a measure of human depth. There is no adversity on this earth that cannot be overcome with fortitude and positive will.

There is no adversity on this earth that cannot be overcome with fortitude and positive will.

They had a toughness and a philosophical attitude which was new to me. Misfortunes which would make the city dweller want to bang his head against a wall were shrugged off with "Aye, well, these things

There have been times in my life when, confronted by black and hopeless circumstances, I have discovered in myself undreamed-of resources of courage and resolution.

In fact I think the Gods love people like Tristan who sway effortlessly before the winds of fate and spring back with a smile, looking on life always with blithe optimism.

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Finally they got me in, half lying across the back seat. My face was pressed against the side window and from the outside it must have been a grotesque sight with the nose squashed sideways and a solitary dead-mackerel eye staring sightlessly into the night.

Sufletul foloseÈ™te ce-i trebuie. Este uimitor cât? înÈ›elepciune practic? se poate g?si în nenoroc È™i accidente.

he was doomed, like millions, to flee from wisdom and be a hero.