Quotes About Adversity

Like many women, she was unable to fit exactly with her husband's view. Her feet hurt: she could not walk in the path of her husband's choosing. She tried to dance to please him, but she could not deny the pain. She is the ancestress of the royal house of Burgundy, and we, her descendants, still try to walk in the paths of men, and sometimes we too find the way unbearably hard.

Ne postoji ništa što ?ovek može u?initi nego da podnosi. Možete besneti ili možete plakati, ali na kraju ?ete nau?iti kako to podnosti.

I'm not a girl, afraid of the unknown, I am a woman; I can face fear, I can walk towards it.

For who could resist a woman who could fall from being queen to commoner and yet still carry herself as if greatness was within?

We teach our boys and girls to know their fear and step towards it as their friend. To use it as a warning. Far braver to face it than go away.

The three things in life he'd wanted to avoid had all come to pass: "to wear eyeglasses, to lose my hair, and to become a refugee.

Life is not a success-only journey. You are going to get beat up along the way. And you've got to have the strength of character to get up and get back in the game.

This always happened. No matter how much Wally tried to stay out of trouble, he didn't.

We're dead," said Wally. "We are cooked! Fried!

it's not our experiences that form us but the ways in which we respond to them;

A man is only the man he seems to be. Inside, where no one sees, he may be a mass of gnawing worms of doubt and ire and grief. ... No challenge is easy. The measure of the challenge a man rises to at need is the measure of the man.

One is never so strong as when one is broken.

Ânito e Meleto podem matar-me, mas não me podem fazer mal. Platão, Apologia de Sócrates (30 C-D)

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Would he not say with Homer,. Better to be the poor servant of a poor master, and to endure anything, rather than think as they do and live after their ...

the champion of justice [...] would be as a man who has fallen among wild beasts, unwilling to share their misdeeds, and unable to hold out singly against the savagery of all.

When a man is out of his depth, whether he has fallen into a little swimming-bath or into mid-ocean, he has to swim all the same.

harmony that would fittingly imitate the utterances and accents of a brave man who is engaged in warfare or in any enforced business, and who, when he has failed […] confronts fortune with steadfast endurance and repels her strokes

It isn't, I said. However, it is a fact that whether one falls into a little swimming pool or into the middle of the biggest sea, one nevertheless swims all the time. Most certainly. Then we too must swim and try to save ourselves from the argument, hoping that some dolphin might take us on his back or for some other unusual rescue.

Deixa que te desprezem, te considerem insensato, te insultem, se quiserem, e até, por Zeus, sofre que te esbofeteiem, coisa que tu achas entre todas infamante: não te acontecerá nenhum mal se fores realmente um homem de bem, dedicado à prática da virtude.

Por tanto, del hombre justo hay que pensar que, si vive en pobreza o en enfermedades o en algún otro de los que parecen males, todo ello terminará para él en bien sea durante su vida, sea después de su muerte. Porque nunca será abandonado por los dioses el que se esfuerza por hacerse justo y parecerse a la divinidad, en cuanto es posible al ser humano la práctica de la virtud. -Es de creer -dijo- que el tal no será abandonado por su semejante.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

Nothing will injure me, not Meletus nor yet Anytus—they cannot, for a bad man is not permitted to injure a better than himself.

I learned that it was in hard times that people usually changed the course of their life; in good times, they frequently only talked about change. Hard times forced them to overcome the doubts that normally gave them pause.It surprised me how often we hold ourselves back until we have no choice.