Quotes About Adversity

Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

These studies are a spur to the young, a delight to the old; an ornament in prosperity, a consoling refuge in adversity; they are pleasure for us at home, and no burden abroad; they stay up with us at night, they accompany us when we travel, they are with us in our country visits.

The shifts of fortune test the reliability of friends.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I shall attack.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms.

Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who are less strong. I can take the bullets for those who aren't able to.

Not problems so much. Just opportunities to learn patience.

Nothing fails like failure.

God and Nature together shaped him to lead in the van, In the stress of her wildest weather when the Nation needed a Man.

More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life's battles.

Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome.

You must bear losses like a soldier, the voice told me, bravely and without complaint, and just when the day seems lost, grab your shield for another stand, another thrust forward. That is the juncture that separates heroes from the merely strong.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

She had become so much more accustomed to hard work and opposition than to adulation that the only emotion she had felt had been one of acute discomfort.

I can't change what's happened to me in my life, or make what's not occurred take place. But I can't say I like it, or accept it, or believe it's for the best. I don't and never shall, not even if I'm damned for it.

Now list six tasks that you currently face and create a Scenario Two for yourself:

Nella vita capita di rinunciare alle persone migliori a favore di altre che non ci interessano, che non ci fanno del bene, semplicemente ci capitano tra i passi, ci corrompono con le loro menzogne e ci abituano a diventare conigli.

Il fango fermo della vita ora è polvere che vola verso di me.

Seems like nothing's getting safer or better," I said. "Seems like everything's getting worse." "Maybe that's what's gotta happen," Willa Mae said. "Maybe everything's gotta break lose and fall apart before we can put it back together again right.

Every now and then you get hit with hard times or good— who's to say? But then there are these tiny times in between when you look up at the tops of trees swaying or you sit don to a fine meal with a new family or you wake up alone and by the end of the day, you got yourself your first friend.