Quotes About Adversity

C'è chi viene portato alla meta da un vento veloce, e chi, al contrario, si macera in un'insopportabile bonaccia. C'è

I had survived that; I would survive this; survival did not mean enjoyment.

He knew ? and I knew ? that the only way to get over an illness is to make friends with disease. Not to fight mentally and lose in the inevitable depression that comes with any severe illness.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people's craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

Failure changes for the better, success for the worse.

I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

Those whom fortune has never favoured are more joyful than those whom she has deserted.

To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading.

We become wiser by adversity prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

We learn not in the school, but in life.