Quotes About Adversity

changes are so frightening.

Between blasts she resorted to Epictetian philosophy in the form of pepsin chewing gum.

We would call no one a lobster without good and sufficient claws.

La resignación es una de nuestras virtudes populares. Más que el brillo de la victoria nos conmueve la entereza ante la adversidad.

El mexicano puede doblarse, humillarse, agacharse, pero no rajarse

Una persona sufrida es menos sensible al dolor que las que apenas si ha sido tocadas por la adversidad.

Desde niños nos enseñan a sufrir con dignidad las derrotas, concepción que no carece de grandeza.

The secret of success is to triple your rate of failure.

He who worries about calamities suffers them twice over.

Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy.

Sound character provides the power with which a person may ride the emergencies of life instead of being overwhelmed by them. Failure is... the highway to success.

I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will remember past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be master of my emotions.

victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

infirmities

let your heart be the light that guides your day and the experience that guides your night. see any bad situation as an experience, and you'll find it very easy to overcome any obstacle.

each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better 

I will know that only those with inferior ability can always be at their best, and I am not inferior. There will be days when I must constantly struggle against forces which would tear me down. Those such as despair and sadness are simple to recognize but there are others which approach with a smile and the hand of friendship and they can also destroy me. Against them, too, I must never relinquish control—

when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.

El tazón roto se convierte en espada aguda. Todas las cosas que se han roto se vuelven espadas.

My dear, it is a great strength to have faced the worst and to have *felt* it a feature of beauty. Nothing ever after can shake one.

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

Whenever you come to a fork in the road, always choose the harder path, otherwise the path of least resistance will be chosen for you.

Bad things happen wherever they get a mind to, but good things don't happen at all unless you go looking for them.