Quotes About Adversity

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner ... and that is the Afrikaner himself.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns.

Cuando un dios envía a un hombre un gozo, antes forja a golpes su corazón ennegrecido.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It's the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it - no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Nella realtà è sempre Golia a vincere. Ma non per questo Davide smetterà di guardarsi intorno, cercando una nuova pietra da scagliare.

Ho sempre preso la vita a morsi. Quel giorno, le ho piantato addosso i denti e anche le unghie.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

If you ever know a man who tries to drown his sorrows, kindly inform him his sorrows know how to swim.

Your destiny can't be taken away no matter what happens.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

With man, most of his misfortunes are occasioned by man.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

The enjoyments of this life are not equal to its evils.

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Não ignoro que muitos outros não olham estas espécies de desgraças senão como uma simples perda de um bem, e que assim pensando eles se julgam grandes homens e homens sábios. De minha parte, não sei se são tão grandes e tão sábios como o imaginam, mas sei bem que não são homens.

Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy.

Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.

Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and gives them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune...

The future bears down upon each one of us with all the hazards of the unknown. The only way out is through.

For though all persons are equally subject to the caprice of fortune, yet all good men have one advantage she cannot deny, which is this, to act reasonably under misfortunes.