Quotes About Adversity

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Ante una tormenta del desierto, ante las fauces del león, ante un ejército formado por decenas de miles de soldados -dijo Atila-, se puede cabalgar sin miedo. Pero ante la ira de una viuda...

Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.

Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity, and consume your own smoke with an extra draft of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaints.

the person who takes medicine must recover twice,once from the disease ,and once from the medicine.

The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune.

An obstacle is often a stepping stone.

After every storm the sun will smile for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.

Folks began to sit down along the curb, leaning against the odd assortment of old vehicles folks had retrofitted to function again after the EMP burst had blown out the electronics.

Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'

Rats, even dead rats, are as familiar to sailors as sunburn. Or fleabites.

Wars have an unpleasant habit of evolving in ways that none of the participants anticipated. When, in the summer of 1914, Europe resounded with cries of "A Berlin!" or "Nach Paris!", no one imagined the Somme, or Verdun, or the starvation blockade of Germany that killed 750,000 civilians.

Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

Everybody's behind the eight-ball!

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

Patch grief with proverbs

My pride fell with my fortunes.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

For courage mounteth with occasion.