Quotes About Adversity

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

It's not easy taking my problems one at a time when they refuse to get in line.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.

The same quickness which makes a mind buoyant in gladness often makes it gentlest and most sympathetic in sorrow.

Abuse changes who we are, it changes who we become, It changes how we move in the world – And so does kindness

I do not know what 'moss' stands for in the proverb , but if it stood for useful knowledge... I gathered more moss by rolling than I ever did at school.

Knowledge is the key to survival, the real beauty of that is that it doesn't weigh anything.

Besides the practical knowledge which defeat offers, there are important personality profits to be taken.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

No podemos pretender ser los primeros, o los preferidos, sólo somos lo que está disponible, los restos, las sobras, los supervivientes, lo que va quedando, los saldos, y es con eso poco noble con lo que se erigen los más grandes amores y se fundan las mejores familias, de eso provenimos todos, producto de la casualidad y el conformismo, de los descartes y las timideces y los fracasos ajenos

no podemos culparnos de las cosas que se escapan a nuestro control.

cuando estés perdido tienes que seguir nadando. Porque cuando te paralizas es cuando gana el miedo. Normalmente

Recuerda, todo lo que hace fuerte, duele. Algunos quedan

Pero si el caminante es demasiado joven, le será imposible renunciar a sus sueños aunque el mundo se empeñe en robárselos.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; The way you play it is free will.

So when you experience a so-called failure, don't view this as failure, but rather as a "character muscle-building" process. It's a process that will strengthen your resolve to transform your career much the same way a caterpillar transforms itself into an elegant butterfly. The job campaign necessitates that you embrace struggle and constructively address adversity. When you do so, new opportunities will present themselves sooner than you'd think possible.

Don't substitute. Carroll O'Connor, the late actor who played the role of Archie Bunker in the sitcom All in the Family, said that the problem for most people is that when they meet resistance in pursuit of their goals, they substitute easier goals rather than create better plans. When you meet resistance in pursuit of your goals (and you will), do not substitute easier goals; rather, create a more refined plan or work harder at the one you have.

Every time you meet a situation, though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before. —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

But as me mum used to say, 'It's always darkest before the dawn.' Things will get better; I'm sure of it." "What worries me is something my dad used to say." "Oh?" "For things to get better they must first get far worse." Her eyes widened. "Oh, dear." I had the feeling my dad knew more than her mum.