Quotes About Adversity

I suppose a man who has been hit over the head with a picture of a girl chirruping to a pigeon and almost immediately afterwards enmeshed in a sheet can never really retain the cool, intelligent outlook.

It sometimes seems to me that in this life we've all got to have trouble sooner or later, and some of us gets it bit by bit, spread out thin, so to speak, and a few of us gets it in a lump—biff!

You know, Bayliss, said Jimmy thoughtfully, rolling over on the couch, life is peculiar, not to say odd. You never know what is waiting for you round the corner. You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.

I was losing the old pep and…unless the clouds changed their act and started dishing out at an early date a considerably more substantial slab of silver lining than they were coming across with at the moment, I should soon be definitely down among the wines and spirits.

Man and boy, Jeeves, I have been in some tough spots in my time, but this one wins the mottled oyster.

You start the day with the fairest prospects, and before nightfall everything is as rocky and ding-basted as stig tossed full of doodlegammon.

No Adonis to begin with, he had been so edited and re-edited during a long and prosperous ring career by the gloved fists of a hundred foes that in affairs of the heart he was obliged to rely exclusively on moral worth and charm of manner.

Mrs Pringle's aspect was that of one who had had bad news round about the year 1900 and never really got over it.

Many men in Packy's position would have shrunk from diving in to the rescue, fully clad. Packy was one of them.

Surgit amari aliquid'.

I was exercised about the poor fish, as I am about all my pals, close or distant, who find themselves treading upon Life's banana skins.

Rechazada al caer, y sin forma obstinada.

What does old ash say when it passes near the fire? Que dice la vieja ceniza cuando camina junto al fuego?

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets — and it's always in your face.

We artists are indestructible, even in a prison cell or a concentration camp I would be all right in my own world of art. Even if I had to paint my pictures with my tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.

Sometimes we kid ourselves when we imagine our lives, expecting that everything will neatly fall into place.

She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could. I

Choosing to be happy and saying thank you to whatever circumstances befall you is one of the most radical things you could ever do.

I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story.

We are all stumbling and falling under our own crosses, those carved from our hands, our sweat, and those not of our own making.

Emporte dans ta mémoire, pour le reste de ton existence, les choses positives qui ont surgi au milieu des difficultés. Elles seront une preuve de tes capacités et te redonneront confiance devant tous les obstacles.

Persons of strong character are usually the happiest. They do not blame others for troubles that can be traced to their own actions and lack of understanding. They know that no one has the power to add to their happiness or detract from it, unless they themselves allow the adverse thoughts or wicked actions of others to affect them.

To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity!

To fly away from problems may seem the easiest solution. But you gain strength only when you wrestle with a strong opponent. One who doesn't have difficulties is one who doesn't grow.