Quotes About Adversity

Struggle is not an option: it's a biological requirement.

Misfortunes seldom come alone.

How frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into. 

miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and

All this labour I was at the expence of, purely from my apprehension on the account of the print of a man's foot which I had seen; for as yet I never saw any human creature come near the island, and I had now lived two years under these uneasinesses, which indeed made my life much less comfortable than it was before;

abused prosperity is oftentimes made the means of our greatest adversity

So sehen wir nie die wahren Vorteile unseres Zustandes, ehe wir die entgegenstehende Nachteile erfahren haben; wir lernen den Wert der Dinge erst dann kennen, wenn wir sie verloren haben!

after some time continually driving them from me, and letting

But as abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity, so it was with me

Upon the whole, here was an undoubted testimony that there was scarce any condition in the world so miserable but there was something negative or something positive to be thankful for in it; and let this stand as a direction from the experience of the most miserable of all conditions in this world: that we may always find in it something to comfort ourselves from, and to set, in the description of good and evil, on the credit side of the account.

for now the hand of Heaven had overtaken me, and I was undone without redemption; but, alas! this was but a taste of the misery I was to go through, as will appear in the sequel of this story.

And, young man," said he, "depend upon it, if you do not go back, wherever you go, you will meet with nothing but disasters and disappointments, till your father's words are fulfilled upon you.

how frequently, in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

the height of human wisdom was to bring our tempers down to our circumstances

abused prosperity is oftentimes made the very means of our greatest adversity

But I, that was born to be my own destroyer...

si los hombres compararan su situación con la de otros que están en peores circunstancias y no con los que están mejor, se sentirían agradecidos y no se quejarían de sus desgracias.

Cuántas veces, en el curso de nuestras vidas, ocurre que el mal que procuramos evitar, y que nos parece terrible cuando nos enfrentamos a él, resulta el verdadero camino de nuestra salvación, el único a través del cual podemos librarnos de nuestras desgracias.

dar oamenii nu se cunosc pe ei înÈ™iÈ™i pân? ce nu-s puÈ™i la încercare, iar curajul se dobândeÈ™te cu timpul È™i prin experien??.

the great Maker of the world, that He does not leave His creatures so absolutely destitute, but that in the worst circumstances they have always something to be thankful for, and sometimes are nearer deliverance than they imagine; nay, are even brought to their deliverance by the means by which they seem to be brought to their destruction.

deixar-se abater pela desgraça é redobrar seu peso, e quem acha ela lhe custará a vida de fato há de morrer.

As Marcus Aurelius said millennia ago, pain "is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

There is much to be said for the constructive contribution to creative and spiritual life; suffering can temper the soul.