Quotes About Adversity

O es que las guerras perdidas deben ocasionar fatalmente la ruina de los pueblos que las pierden? Brevemente se podría responder que esto es posible siempre que la derrota militar testifique la corrupción moral de un pueblo, su cobardía, su falta de carácter, en fin, su condición de indignidad. No siendo así, la derrota militar impulsará más bien a un futuro de mayor resurgimiento, en lugar de ser la lápida de la existencia nacional.

Ogni volta che la dea necessità mi prese nelle sue braccia e minacciò di stritolarmi, crebbe parimenti la volontà di resistenza, e la mia volontà seppe vincere

Obstacles are placed across our path not to be boggled at, but to be surmounted.

Life does not forgive weakness.

In the thirteen years of my struggle for Germany, I have had to put up with so much persecutions and personal attacks that I gradually really learned to put the great cause, which I serve, above the miserable own self. Letter of November 16, 1932 to v. Papen

Anyone can deal with victory. Only the mighty can bear defeat.

If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.

I have looked evil in the eye, my friend. I am afraid to say it does not blink.

Satan wants you for a storm cloud, baby.

The Bible says that man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward. Well, trouble followed me like sharks trailing a slave ship. Even when I tried to get away it was there swirling in a vortex around me.

Life, Enza decided, is not about what you get, but what is taken from you. It's in the things we lose that we discover what we most treasure.

My state of being. Well, I'd gone from pissed off, lonely, sad, frightened, and depressed, to being a little wiser, a little stronger, a little more resilient. I'd survived.

My mother had narrowed her vision and chosen happiness, and I had willingly signed on, both of us ignoring the dangers of the new terrain.

You can't get past pain without going through it,

Living hell is the best revenge.

Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies.

Things could always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.The beak that grips her, she becomes.

I came to see the damage that was doneand the treasures that prevail.I stroke the beam of my lampslowly along the flankof something more permanentthan fish or weed.

Well, she's long about her coming, who must be more merciless to herself than history. Her mind full to the wind, I see her plunge breasted and glancing through the currents, taking the light upon her at least as beautiful as any boy or helicopter, poised, still coming, her fine blades making the air wince but her cargo no promise then: delivered palpable ours.

I never think past any man, because every guy has two hands and every dude wants to hurt you.

A lot of people think I had such a rosy career, but I wanted to identify that one of the things that helps you have a long career is learning how to deal with adversity, how to get past it. Once I learned how to get through that, others things didn't seem so hard.

My past is a bit checkered.