Quotes About Adversity

there is nothing, in fact, which man cannot be forced to do by hunger and pain." Herling became convinced "that a man can only be human under human conditions." From

Men are slower to recognize blessings than misfortunes.

Men are slower to recognize blessings than evils.

Adversity makes men remember God

Flying without feathers is not easy; my wings have no feathers.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Per i prossimo dieci anni la tua vita sarà orribile, avrai grandi problemi e niente ti andrà bene", dice l'indovino. "E poi?", chiede ansioso il cliente. "Poi? Poi ci farai l'abitudine!

Cloaked there in that petrified darkness, crammed shoulder to shoulder with the breath of their fear on her neck, she learned that coward was often only another name for survivor.

I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems to befall me at exactly the right moment.

Sam took another sip of the pruno. It went down smoother this time, possibly because he no longer had feeling in his extremities.

Im a glacier in a sea of idiots

2. What, exactly, are you supposed to do when your mom not only doesn't make everything better (like she did, effortlessly, for the first fourteen and a half years of your life), but also actually now makes things worse (and maybe even much worse)?

While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.

The Mittelbunders attacked Brussels, taking advantage of the fact that the cold weather meant that many of Boulanger's steam engines were failing to perform well. Boulanger was not a fool and tried to convert his artillery back over to conventional horsepower, but was hampered by the fact that his men had already eaten most of Brussels' horses – and were making a good start on the cats and dogs, too.

The greatest generation was formed first by the Great Depression. They shared everything -- meals, jobs, clothing.

This is the greatest generation any society has ever produced.

came of age in the Great Depression, when economic despair hovered over

The greatest men sometimes overshoot themselves, but then their very mistakes are so many lessons of instruction.

If you want to kick the tiger in his ass you'd better have a plan for dealing with his teeth

Surviving is much more painful than death.

I used to get beaten up by these green berets in my neighborhood. Some people call them Girl Scouts.

This is a great learning experience. It builds character.

If you had ever leaned sideways into the breeze with a sand wedge in your hands, staring through windblown tears at a golf ball entombed in four feet of fanged thistle, clothes soaked through to the skin, fingers like an overworked fishmonger, and yet you couldn't bring yourself to stop smiling—then you got it.

No substantial change has ever been managed without risk.