Quotes About Adversity

The little troubles and worries of life, so many of which we meet, may be as stumbling blocks in our way, or we may make them stepping stones to a noble character.

I think I've been broken for a long time. I've lived with this hole in my chest for so long I got used to it.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

I don't think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

Those who suffer a defeat are often branded by history as lacking in talent, whereas it is frequently circumstances that are unfavourable to them.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor

To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself withoutsuffering. For he is both the marble and the sculptor. In order to uncover his true visage,he must shatter his own substance with heavy blows of his hammer.

The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing.

It was very difficult, impossible really, to survive if you never existed.

It's not that shit happens as other people have said; it's the eternal reality of a legacy in brokenness that was the problem to them.

Of the Gymnasium class of 1939, half had died. Not one was yet 18.

Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can sail around the world many, many times, but just let enough water get into the ship and it will sink. Just so with the human mind. Let enough negative thoughts or improper thoughts get into the human mind and the person sinks just like a ship.

The style of life is a unity because it has grown out of the difficulties of early life and out of the striving for a goal.

There is a courage of happiness as well as a courage of sorrow.

Courage is not an ability one either possesses or lacks. Courage is the willingness to engage in a risk-taking behavior regardless of whether the consequences are unknown or possibly adverse. We are capable of courageous behavior provided we are willing to engage in it.

As a matter of fact, in our personal lives, as in the lives of all peoples, inferiorities are not to be considered as the source of all evil. Only the situation can determine whether they are assets or liabilities.

Now frowns the sky, the air bites bleak, The young boughs rock, the old trunks creak, And fast before the following gale Come slanting drops, then slashing hail, As keen as sword, as thick as shot. Nay, do not cower, but heed them not! For these one neither flies nor stirs; They are but April skirmishers, Thrown out to cover the advance Of gleaming spear and glittering lance, With which the sunshine scours amain Heaven, earth, and air, and routs the rain.

Les malheurs ont leurs symptômes comme les maladies, et il n'y a rien de si redoutable en mer qu'un petit point noir à l'horizon. P 123

Es steht schlimm um ein Leben, wenn es die Wüste nicht besteht oder sie meidet …

Try walking a mile in your enemy's shoes. You'll be a mile away and you'll have his shoes.