Quotes About Adversity

Naomi Mitchison,

What an unequaled gift for disaster you have.

This is the deck of cards you've been dealt. Now you have to deal with it.

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

You can't break my heart. It's made of water.

Why is everything always so hard?" "That's life, as far as I'm aware. Endlessly cruel.

And when you've fought to earn your place amongst the living, you get to enjoy the spoils," he grimaces. "So I drink more and I fuck more. Because unlike some normal asshole in a normal tie sitting behind his normal computer, I know what lurks in the dark.

We clean it up and we keep going," I say firmly. "Life is one mess after another, and there's nothing you or I or anyone else on this planet can do to change that. So when messes happen, like they always will, there's only one thing to do: you clean it up. And you keep going. Say that to me.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.'" "Quoting Shakespeare

Always carry champagne! In victory You deserve it & in defeat You need it!

no one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.

Tragedy is the school of genius; it is the duty of sovereigns to encourage and support it.

Champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El verdadero carácter siempre aparece en las grandes circunstancias" (Napoleón Bonaparte)

Every adversity, every failure, and every heartache, carries with it the Seed of an equivalent or greater Benefit.

Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat

In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.