Quotes About Adversity

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.

Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell.

been shot four times.

The forces of hell will not annihilate the Christian faith.

What feeble intellect and character a person must have, to turn from Christ just because someone else does!

The way of transgressors is hard." This is half of a verse from Proverbs (13:15, KJV).

do your best to avoid unnecessary persecution, but never compromise.

When I was younger I used to pick things just to face the fear.

Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

If I cease searching, then, woe is me, I am lost. That is how I look at it - keep going, keep going come what may.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

Well, right now it seems that things are going very badly for me, have been doing so for some considerable time, and may continue to do so well into the future. But it is possible that everything will get better after it has all seemed to go wrong. I am not counting on it, it may never happen, but if there should be a change for the better I should regard that as a gain, I should rejoice, I should say, at last! So there was something after all!

I knew well enough that one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

Dans chaque vie où de la pluie doit tomber, quelques jours seront sombres et lugubres – c'est vrai, il ne peut en aller autrement, et pourtant je me demande si le nombre de jours sombres et lugubres peut parfois devenir trop grand ? La lutte intérieure de Van Gogh: Sa vie, son Å"uvre et sa maladie mentale - Liesbeth Heenk

Anyone who leads an upright life and experiences real difficulty and disappointment and yet is not crushed by them is worth more than one for whom everything has always been plain sailing and who has known nothing but relative prosperity.

Whoever lives sincerely and encounters much trouble and disappointment, but is not bowed down by them, is worth more than one who has always sailed before the wind and has only known relative prosperity.

În fine, nu m? pot l?sa prad? melancoliei, trebuie s? g?sesc o ieÈ™ire, c?ci datoria mea e s? lucrez. Sunt clipe când nu-mi g?sesc liniÈ™tea decât în certitudinea c? nenorocirea nu m? va cruÈ›a nici pe mine.

Life has quicksands, life has snares

One must never trust the occasion when one is without difficulties.

Aliás, a humildade me convém após a experiência de ataques repetidos. Portanto, não perco a paciência.

I know there are persons who think I ought to resign myself, and that it is against the rules not to consider myself beaten; but if they say of my proposal this summer, "If you sing before breakfast, you will cry before night," then you know the verse, He lost his feather in a fight But knew they'd grow again all right, Far finer than before

Não te oculto que teria preferido morrer a causar e a sofrer tantos dissabores. Mas que queres? Sofrer sem se queixar é a única lição que tratamos de aprender na vida.