Quotes About Adversity

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

A true knight is fuller of bravery in the midst, than in the beginning of danger.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only today I happen to have a headache.' (Tweedledum)

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.

With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents.

Let us be brave in the face of adversity.

Trying and getting hurt can't possibly be worse for you than being... stuck.

Change of any sort requires courage.

In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.

Courage is what you earn when you've been through the tough times and you discover they aren't so tough after all.

And only weaklings...who lack courage and the power to feel they're right when the whole world says they're wrong, ever lose.

Even in the hardest circumstances, dreams can give you the courage to live, and I hope I can share that message with children in need.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Have the courage "to swim against the tide". Have the courage to be happy.

From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound conviction of having lost the right track forever.

In the final analysis courage is nothing but an affirmative answer to the shocks of existence, to the shocks which it is necessary to bear for the sake of realizing one's own nature.

To face despair and not give in to it, that's courage.

Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.

Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that.