Quotes About Adversity

Cuando uno cuenta los naufragios es porque no se ahogó.

History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion." Gerald R. Ford, thirty-eighth President of the United States of America. Served 1974–1977. The

I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.

If it doesn't make callouses on a girl's hands it will make them on her heart. I've been waiting all my life for a chance, and the chance has never come." Something flared in her.

he had avoided the full brunt of danger and still retained his dignity. And

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should have risen to the challenge and either couldn't or wouldn't. Greed, fear, stupidity and hate. I saw it before the war, I see it today. [...] I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

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I don't come with the wheelchair. The wheelchair comes with me.

Humour is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

I don't know why it is we are in such a hurry to get up when we fall down. You might think we would lie there and rest for a while.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

Humor is the instinct for taking pain playfully.

in intelligence as in everything else related to conflict victory is gained not by the side that makes no mistakes, but by the one that makes fewer than the other side. By

Yet both Langlais and 'Bruno' were better suited to enduring a crucifixion than inspiring a resurrection.

though a pilot once panicked and baled out over Germany, leaving the rest of his crew to bring the plane home.

Poles had a dark joke in 1944, about a bird which falls out of the sky into a cowpat, to be rescued by a cat; its moral, they said, was that "Not everyone who gets you out of the shit is necessarily your friend.

A revolutionary career does not lead to banquets and honorary titles, interesting research and professorial wages. It leads to misery, disgrace, ingratitude, prison and a voyage into the unknown, illuminated by only an almost superhuman belief.

Life is a hard school for u know not wat level of class u r in, wat exam u will have, and u can't copy bcoz nobody else has the same paper… HARSHIT AGRAWAL

The very first company I started failed with a great bang. The second one failed a little bit less, but still failed. The third one, you know, proper failed, but it was kind of okay. I recovered quickly. Number four almost didn't fail. It still didn't really feel great, but it did okay. Number five was PayPal.

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

men bowed, being unable to force the issue. As Sethirkhopeshef

In the way of all men, once the danger was past, they forgot the hardships and looked forward to the good things in life once more.

Sólo quien está seguro de no quebrarse cuando, desde su punto de vista, el mundo se muestra demasiado estúpido o demasiado abyecto para lo que él le ofrece; sólo quien frente a todo esto es capaz de responder con un «sin embargo»; sólo un hombre de esta forma construido tiene «vocación» para la política.