Quotes About Adversity

No people in history have ever survived, who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies.

The Path Of Least Resistance Is Littered With The Corpses Of The Bored To Death

Keeping your mouth shut whilst eating shit will get you far in life but your soul will die of starvation.

A life without struggle creates a person without soul

So I shall say it again: that which does not offend us makes us weaker

When failing spectacularly the trick is to employ an inverted Schadenfreude. Take ownership of your misfortune.

If you don't make an enemy of envy, it will become your only friend

Life is a series of obstacles and setbacks; living is overcoming them.

But struggling and suffering, as I now saw it, were the essence of a life worth living. If you're not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you're not constantly demanding more from yourself—expanding and learning as you go—you're choosing a numb existence. You're denying yourself an extraordinary trip.

You cannot grow and expand your capabilities to their limits without running the risk of failure. And failure can provide invaluable lessons.

When you're going through hell, keep going. —Winston Churchill

Life is at its most extraordinary during the struggle, not during times of idle contentment

Being originated from a poor family does not let you think poor, but your weaknesses do.

What they could use and carry from a shipwreck, the Sahrawis took. What they could not take, it was their custom to burn. To the victims who witnessed this destruction of their personal articles and the cargo of their vessel, it was often the last cruel blow before they assumed the life of a slave to some of the poorest people on earth, living in some of the harshest conditions imaginable.

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.

You often take two steps backward to take one step forward.

You often take two steps backwards to take one step forward.

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

He considered that a moment, rolling the sweet over his tongue. "There are times when it is entirely safe to show one's vulnerability, to roll over and reveal the soft underbelly beneath. But there are other times when pain must be borne without a murmur, when the pain is so consuming that if you give in to it, even in the slightest, you have lost everything.

But this is a thing that I know--to live with fear is not to live at all. A man will die every moment he is afraid.

Tis a hard thing for a child to know she isn't wanted. It gets into her blood and bones until she knows that she must always find her own way, for none will smooth her path. But that sort of thing makes a woman strong, you know.

You rise from your bed every day on two strong legs and can think only to complain that someone once spoke harshly to you.