Quotes About Adversity

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

There is an art to losing, and like all art, it can be developed.

In other words, to Train in the preliminaries is to stop moaning and feeling sorry for yourself and to recognize instead that regardless of what has happened or why, this is your life and you are the only one equipped to deal with it.

When we train our mind to embrace what's hard instead of trying to get rid of it, we have begun to walk a path of growth, happiness, and true resilience. Our

Before the Battle of Britain, the Luftwaffe had things their own way. They had won in Spain, in Poland, in Belgium, in France. Over Britain, for the first time, they came up against something they couldn't beat. It was not easy for them to understand that.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

mediocra noastr? diminea?? friguroas?, îng?duitoare, înaint?m, cu toate dup? noi, calendar, certificate, cartograme, primejdii, pove?ti, pozne, podoabe, a?teptarea rece pueril? a zilei, pedeapsa noastr?, bucurie dezn?dejde, desaga fiec?ruia.

Now everything was going to be impossible, but better.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

What if the last seventy-five years has been the exception rather than the rule? What if the last three-quarters of a century has lulled us into believing that the next few decades will continue on the same path? What if we have forgotten the lessons of history from a century ago? In the first four decades of the twentieth century, we faced World War I, then the deadly Spanish flu of 1918–19, then deglobalization and bouts of hyperinflation, and then the Great Depression.

My mother is a special story. She went through so much to bring us up, four men at home, especially when our country was going through really difficult times.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

The ideal of morality has no more dangerous rival than the ideal of supreme strength, of a life of maximum vigor, which has also been called the ideal of aesthetic greatness. That life is in truth the ultimate attainment of the barbarian, and unfortunately in these days of civilization's withering it has won a great many adherents. In pursuance of this ideal man becomes a hybrid thing, a brute-spirit, whose cruel mentality exerts a horrible spell upon weaklings.

Yes, life is hard, but it's not a bad way to pass the time. When all is said and done, I recommend it.

If a person has lived through war, poverty and love, he has lived a full life

Yes, you learn your lessons as they come your way... And when you have learned them all they can stick red-hot pokers in your wife and babies and you will only laugh to see it. Because you will know by then that people don't matter a damn. Men are like corn growing. The sun burns them up and the rain washes them out and the winter freezes them, and the cavalry tramps them down, but somehow they keep growing. And none of it matters a damn so long as the whisky holds out.

I should think it might be difficult to possess a wife whom almost every other man in town has known so intimately, but no doubt True Love Conquers All.

Los hombres son como el maíz. El sol los quema, la lluvia los empapa, el invierno los congela y la Caballería los pisotea, pero a pesar de todo continúan creciendo. Y nada de eso importa mientras haya whisky.

In my life I have been a fool with liquor and a wise man with horses. I was born on a horse, or just off one anyway, for my mother died in a fall a month before she was due to be light of me, and they cut me from her there. Which was the last time I was throwed, except by whiskey.

Ne yaz?k ki teknik imkans?zl?klar ve bütçe yetersizlikleri, her hay?rl? te?ebbüs gibi bu ara?t?rman?n da emekleme ça??nda kalmas?na sebep olmu?...

Bizlere uygun görülen kadere her yerde kar?? ç?kmal?y?z.