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Quotes About Adversity

I am aware that a man of real merit is never seen in so favorable a light as seen through the medium of adversity.
~ Alexander Hamilton
there was no better spot than a mountaintop for taking on the minions of the devil. He
~ Alexander Key
They were about to continue a journey that had really started long ago. A journey that had been strangely interrupted, that even now someone was trying to prevent.
~ Alexander Key
Lo importante es sobrevivir y una persona tolerará el dolor y renunciará al placer para mantenerse viva.
~ Alexander Lowen
Sometimes, I think I'm the child of the Devil. Honestly, I do believe that. I've invited the Devil in, and now I can't get him out. I've tried burning him out and cutting him out and he don't take no notice. Why should he? He doesn't want to be homeless. He's got me. Little, skinny, violent me.
~ Alexander Masters
If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that way.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
~ Alexander Payne
And mistress of herself, though china fall.
~ Alexander Pope
Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.
~ Alexander Pope
Jangan gembira kalau seseorang ditindas, Jangan kesal kalau seseorang mendapat berkah.
~ Alexander Pope
A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
~ Alexander Smith
But when the wheel next turns, it could turn in the devil's own direction. That's why we put our shoulder to it.
~ Alexander Wolff
I am not stunted. I am vertically challenged. - Levet
~ Alexandra Ivy
You can Laugh or you can cry, it changes nothing
~ Alexandra Ivy
There is nothing in this life that can destroy you but yourself. Bad things happen to everyone, but when they do, you can't just fall apart and die. You have to fight back. If you don't, you're the one who loses in the end. But if you do keep going and fight back, you win.
~ Alexandra Monir
But, you know, everytime your heart is broken, it gets stronger.
~ Alexandra Potter
Remember that, love. When life buries us under all its heartache and disappointment, think about a seed. It needs to be buried in order for it to grow. That's how the magic happens. But you have to have faith. Remember that. Patience and faith.
~ Alexandra Potter
When life buries us under all its heartache and disappointment, think about a seed. It needs to be buried in order for it to grow. That's how the magic happens. But you have to have faith. Remember that. Patience and faith.
~ Alexandra Potter
I lie here for a few moments, willing it to go away. I'd hoped that by moving back to London I could leave it behind, with no forwarding address. But now it's found me and it's not giving up without a fight. But neither am I. Summoning my courage, I throw back my duvet. Because if there's one thing I do know, it's that you must never give in to a bully. And The Fear is the very worst kind.
~ Alexandra Potter
The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong and they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes. ELIZABETH GILBERT
~ Alexandra Potter
When things are at their worst, Scarlett, the only thing to do is find something to laugh about. It keeps you sane… and it stops your teeth chattering from fear.
~ Alexandra Ripley
I guess I let things get me down as far as a person can go, she thought with disgust, and her own scorn warmed her. I won't let it happen again, ever, no matter what comes. Once you get down all the way, the road can only go up.
~ Alexandra Ripley
Scarlett O'Hara did the most courageous thing she had ever been called on to do. She faced up to failure.
~ Alexandra Ripley
Johnny Reb' laughed. 'What's it to a soldier the right and the wrong of it all? He's there for the fighting, that's what he likes. Doesn't matter who you're fighting, long as he gives you a good fight.
~ Alexandra Ripley