Quotes About Adversity

The pain of yesterday is the strength of today

A responsible Warrior is not someone who takes the weight of the world on his shoulders, but someone who has learned to deal with the challenges of the moment.

I will not talk to my own darkness anymore, I promised myself, closing the door on the Other. A fall from the third floor hurts as much as a fall from the hundredth. If I have to fall, may it be from a high place.

Fear exists before and after, but not while the shots are being fired, because, at that moment, you see men at their very limit, capable of the most heroic of actions and the most inhumane.

We must struggle for our dreams, but when certain paths prove impossible, it would be best to save our energies in order to travel other roads.

Life is falling down 7 times and getting up 8.

When I experienced humiliation and yet kept walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.

so you , too , must learn to bear certain pains and sorrows, because they will make you a better person

We should always be prepared for attacks by the enemy and be capable of looking into the eye of death so that death may light our path.

Woe to those who prefer to spend their lives saying: "I never had any opportunities!" Because with each day that passes, they will sink deeper into the well of their own limitations

I ask myself: Are Defeats necessary ? Well,necessary or not, they happen. When we first begin fighting for our dream, we've no experience and make many mistakes. The Secret of life, though,is to fall seven times and to get up eight times !

The Marquis De Sade said that the most important experiences a man can have are those that take him to the very limit; that is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.

But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us

Fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself.

Whenever I refused to follow my fate, something very hard to bear would happen in my life.

If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments- But all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark.

Not everything in life is a long train with tickets available to all.

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up--but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.

Losing a battle or losing everything we thought we possessed will bring us moments of sadness, but when those moments pass, we will discover the hidden strength that exists in each of us, a strength that will surprise us and increase our self-respect.

The boy could see in his father's gaze a desire to be able, himself, to travel the world—a desire that was still alive, despite his father's having had to bury it, over dozens of years, under the burden of struggling for water to drink, food to eat, and the same place to sleep every night of his life.

Uno no elige su vida: es la vida la que lo elige. Y si lo que te ha reservado son alegrías o tristezas, es algo que está más allá de tu comprensión. Acéptalo y sigue adelante. No elegimos nuestra vida, pero decidimos qué hacer con las alegrías y las tristezas que recibimos.

Everything truly had to be faced without fear, as a mere fact of life - we don't choose the things that happen to us, but we can choose how we react to them.

Your personal devil tries three classical approaches : a threat, a promise, and an attack on your weak side.