Quotes About Adversity

Anger is a rough water; if you can canalize it into a water mill, you can benefit from it. Anything bad can be transformed into good.

Any shoe which protects your feet in a hard road is a beautiful shoe!

Anything easy teaches you nothing! To learn something, have some difficulties!

Be like a train; go in the rain, go in the sun, go in the storm, go in the dark tunnels! Be like a train; concentrate on your road and go with no hesitation!

Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!

Big storms create big captains and they destroy the little ones!

Birds don't need bridges to cross precipices and honourable men with honesty wings to cross precipices of slander.

Blessed are the ones who have enemies, for they have a vital reason to be better in every way.

Candle needs darkness to show his talents. Good shines only beside the bad; it will disappear when the bad disappears. Where there is no darkness, candle is forgotten.

Courage is a gas pedal and fear is a brake; when we go to our destination, we need both!

Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!

Courage refuses frontiers!

Crying has no potential for solving the problems!

Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!

Don't challenge the world before becoming a big fire; otherwise they will extinguish you even with little spits!

Don't forget that birds with broken wings walking on the ground were once flying high up in the sky.

Dwarfs have also the right to despise the giants, because giants too can be defeated!

Even if it is made up of gold, the sailing boat can go nowhere without the humble wind!

Even if you enter the dirty water, stay neat like a white swan!

Every man - at least once in his lifetime - has visited the silent and dark street of disappointment.

Every powerful storm will help us to make a stronger shelter!

Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.

For a man who is in poverty, doomsday is already there!

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.