Quotes About Adversity

when the fortress of the body is besieged on all sides the mind must at length succumb.

Curaram-no. Mas logo que deixou de ser louco, tornou-se idiota. Há males de que não se deve buscar a cura porque só eles nos protegem contra males mais graves.

But, for one thing, however fiercely the Dreyfus cyclone was raging, it is not at the onset of a storm that the waves are at their most violent.

for the people who decline to give you the things you desire give you other things.

Nos rodean suficientes sombras ya, no agregues otras.

Everyone suffers, who doesn't, for God's sake? So there should be some kind of manual explaining how the hell to bring back happiness in spite of your troubles.

If at first you don't succeed, blame your parents.

To this woman the word "worldwide" seems much worse than the word "war". Because Women have always being fighters: fighting themselves, fighting poverty, fighting drunken husbands, fighting children that need sorting out. But the whole world, dear God - worldwide is quite another thing.

Acepta tus miedos pues son los que te han retado para que desarrolles la misma fuerza y coraje de un esforzado caballero en la batalla.

El dolor es mejor maestro que el placer.

Cómo puede alguien ser mejor después de haber sido herido?

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

Death smiles at us all, but all a man can do is smile back.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune".

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing; the main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unseen attack.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune," but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Whatever happens it all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.