Quotes About Adversity

Adversity is a call to action, and your freedom lies in taking the first step. Don't worry about the entire staircase, just take one step, and then tomorrow take another.

Freedom suppressed and again regained bites with keener fangs than freedom never endangered.

As a stoic I must despise injury or, rather, I must not feel it, must not be affected by it so that it cannot violate the freedom of my soul.

If mere mechanical efficiency can make everyone a martial artist, then all is well. Unfortunately, combat, like freedom, is something that can not be preconceived.

The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.

I was born in Turkey in an extremely oppressive climate at the time of pogroms, massacres, really. An immigrant appreciates the freedom more.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

let geese Gabble and hiss, but heroes seek release From dusty bondage into luminous air.

You can't cage an eagle for long without destroying it.

The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible.

I became acquainted with those martyrs whose behavior in camp, whose suffering and death, bore witness to the fact that the last inner freedom cannot be lost.

The famous are balloons far up in the sky, to be envied for their quiet freedom or shot down as enemies.

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

There is often in people in whom 'the worst' has happened an almost transcendent freedom, for they have faced 'the worst' and survived it.

I think when you take people who are damaged and you give them money and freedom, it can be a toxic cocktail.

I am no longer tied to the cliffsThreats don't hold any groundI have decided to fly highOn the winds of cool complacence

We know there is no such thing as freedom without the risk of failure.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

That's the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with won't like the new you. But other people who do will come along.

He who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere.

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

Adversity does teach who your real friends are.

He makes no friend who never made a foe.