Quotes About Adversity

Wenn nun aber die Natur einmal korrupt ist, was soll man tun?" "Erstens es wissen, als ein Verhängnis und ohne etwas Positives daraus machen zu wollen. Zweitens ihr trotzdem folgen. Ergreifen, wovon man ergriffen ist.

Heinrich Gerlach

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.

Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.

In her excitement at the idea of just walking out the door she had walked out the door without stopping to practice and without even her sheet music, and now she had nothing to play from and nothing prepared. Some people might have been daunted by this setback. The Konigsbergs faced musical catastrophe on a daily basis, & their motto was: Never say die.

He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualities.

Be brave. Each time you are brave, it grows easier.

They will heal anyway, with time. We...are strong. It takes more...to conquer us.Scars don't matter, little one. They are the marks of the battles we have won.

Scars don't matter, little one. They are the marks of the battles we have won.

My sense of humor will be a ray of sunshine if our plane death-spirals into the frozen tundra

It is a truth universally acknowledged that when one part of your life starts going okay, another falls spectacularly to pieces.

It is no wonder that so many children preferred life on the streets, for street children forced into petty theft and prostitution were also a singular phenomenon of 1940s Spain

Helen Graham

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

The strong don't necessarily survive, but the mean invariably do.

Sometimes life seems very unfair.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

The world is full of suffering but it is also full of people overcoming it.

We would never learn to be patient if there were only joy in the world.

When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.