Quotes About Adversity

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Life doesn't teach us through ease & happiness, it teaches us through challenges & pain."

They'd stopped being shrewd worshippers begging for interviews and had become irritating stones in the revolution's shoes.

el miedo es un grillo que se aplasta con el pie.

Ser opositor no puede ser gratis», le dice uno de sus asesores cubanos,

Nadie sobresale. La oposición sigue perdida.

Trahi de toutes parts, accablé d'injustices, Je vais sortir d'un gouffre où triomphent les vices ; Et chercher sur la terre un endroit écarté Où d'être homme d'honneur, on ait la liberté.

Tous ces défauts humains nous donnent, dans la vie, Des moyens d'exercer notre philosophie

Plus grand est l'obstacle, plus grande est la gloire de le surmonter.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

There is no rampart that will hold out against malice.

To find yourself jilted is a blow to your pride. Do your best to forget it and if you don't succeed, at least pretend to.

Good behaviour' at the start means keeping oneself upright and benign in the face of adversity. By the end it has become a byword for enacting cruelty and revenge on your nearest relatives, all, of course, with the utmost subtlety and discretion.

I just realized, baby, right now, thinking of how I could take this pain away from you, I just realized that you have to feel it. You gotta make your way through all the bad stuff to get to the good.

Her dreams had not survived her dreaming them; they'd been broken and repaired, only to be smashed again and again.

When we were pushed to the edge we were capable of anything. Surviving was the only thing that mattered.

The world's perverse, but it could be worse.

In the only way that pain can be truly remembered, through a new pain.

When I can't ride anymore, I shall keep horses as long as I can hobble around with a bucket and a wheelbarrow. When I can't hobble, I shall roll my wheelchair out to the fence of the field where my horses graze and watch them. Whether by wheelbarrow or wheelchair, I will do likewise to keep alive-as long as I can do as best I can-my connection with horses.

If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, keep cooking. Success comes from repeatedly doing things that make you uncomfortable.

Despite all the evils they wished to crush me with/ I remain as steady as the three-legged cauldron.

Failure and its accompanying misery is for the artist his most vital source of creative energy.

There's no such thing as a superhuman. But the only thing I got to tell you, if you take a dog and kick him around he's got to be alert, he's got to be more sharper than you. Well, we've been kicked around for two thousand years. We're not more smarter, we're more alert.