Quotes About Adversity

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not. It is the first lesson that ought to be learned and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

A character for steadiness once gone is not easily recovered

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit.

the bad stuff will ultimately turn good if you wait long enough, and the good stuff will turn bad over time.

Be tough … life is. In other words, there is no promise of a rose garden.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.

Let what will be said or done, preserve your sangfroid immovably, and to every obstacle, oppose patience, perseverance, and soothing language.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

Know well that the enemy laboureth in all wise to stay thy desire in good and to make thee void of all good exercise.

We all have to expect to lose something in times like these.

Maribelle Wegman is known as the widow Wegman. Married four times. Three dead husbands. Not her fault, but having managed the hat trick already, she has been given the trophy to keep.

Qui jacet in terra non habet unde cadat. In me consumpsit vires fortuna nocendo, Nil superest ut iam possit obesse magis." (loosely translated: "He who lies on the ground can fall no farther. In me, Fortune has exhausted her power of hurting; nothing remains that can harm me anymore.")

The major part of our species seems able to undergo any trauma without significantly re-examining its household mantras, including "everything happens for a reason," "the show must go on," "accept the things you cannot change," and any other adage that gets people to keep their chins up.

Though opposition is a hopeless task, acquiescence would be worse.

Sanity, however, was so integral to his character that neither hysteria nor horror could long have their way with him.

He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. Of course, he was descending.… But he was still sane. He had chosen his course and now he was following it.

College is supposed to be an uncomfortable experience.

For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph.