Quotes About Adversity

Sintió ese tipo de falsa resignación que puede engañarnos cuando contemplamos los contratiempos en un momento en el que no los experimentamos.

He was like a fine olive tree, which when its roots are checked one way will put them out another. Summer or winter, storm or calm, his soul sought justice and the end of wrong.

And suddenly he knew that this was not, as he had been saying to himself, simply an unlucky day. It was a day dedicated beforehand to a lost cause.

You are a very sharp-tongued little girl," mother said, looking up at me. I am two inches taller than she is. "Unless you learn to curb yourself, there will be no parties for you, and no party dresses." This was the speach [sic] that broke the Camel's back. I could endure no more. "I think," I said, "that I shall get married and end everything." Need I explain that I had no serious intention of taking the fatal step? But it was not deliberate mendasity[sic]. It was Despair.

Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe two 100-year-old trees were uprooted on the spot. The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground. That the featherweight survive the massive, that this reversal of fortune takes place among us — that is what haunts me. I don't know what it means.

All of the heroes you see falling down were filmed trying to stand up.

Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity

Nancy: sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity. Decca: sisters are life's cruel adversity. The Sisters: The Saga of the Mitford Family

War, like death, is a great leveller, and mutual suffering and endurance had made us all friends.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them

Peace in this life springs from acquiescence even in disagreeable things, not in an exemption from bearing them. FRANÇOIS DE LA MOTHE FÉNELON.

Nothing is intolerable that is necessary.

Success is measured not in how much we accomplish, but in how much we overcome.

I relish my life. It's the one I have. It's difficult, beautiful, painful, full of laughter, passing strange. Whatever else it is, whatever it brings – it's mine.

There are other kinds of damage, to the people in your life, to your sense of who you are and what you can do, to your future

There is no right," she says. "There's the best you can do. And that's fine. That's normal.

Maybe all men should have to fight for something sometime in their lives. I'm thirty-three years old and I've never had to fight for a blessed thing, have I?