Quotes About Adversity

Karena itu, Ann, kau harus kuat. Kalau tidak, orang akan sangat mudah jadi permainan, dan terus dipermainkan oleh orang-orang semacam dia itu.

Bagi wanita muda, Mas Nganten, sebenarnya tak ada kesulitan hidup di dunia, apalagi kalau ia canti, dan rodi sudah tak ada lagi.

Orang kampung seperti sahaya ini, bendoro muda, kelahirannya sendiri sudah suatu kecelakaan. Tak ada sesuatu yang lebih celaka dari nasib orang kampung.

Mbok, kau mau lawan kejahatan nini dengantanganmu, tapi kau tak mampu. Maka itu kau lawan dengan lidahmu. Kaupun tak mampu. Kemudian kau cuma lawan dengan hatimu. Setidak-tidaknya kau melawan.

Tak bakal mampu orang Indonesia punya babu dalam keadaan begitu sulit beras.

Dengan modal keberanian dan teror saja tak banyak yang bisa dicapai dalam kehidupan modern begini,

Everyone of us should constantly try to become more calm and stable by each passing day, as these are the qualities of any wise person. Whatever be the situation, our resilience should be such that we are always ready to face the consequences of any situation without fear. Getting better and better as a human being is what we all should work for.

Have you ever thought about the factors that help you come out of every odd situation in life? There are 3R's that can let you sail easily through every stormy situation of life. These are the response, responsibility, and responsiveness. The way you respond to the problem, the way you hold yourself responsible for it and finally the responsiveness you show in solving it matters a lot and let you drive out of the bad situation.

Sufferings go along with success as life can never be a uniform and smooth road. It is a culmination of unprecedented and unfortunate events. So, if you have the strength to stand strong at the time of suffering then you can surely except success to knock at your door.

When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game. Stand up and die game! Do not add one lunacy to another. Do not add your weakness to the evil that is going to come. That is all I have to say to the world.

When the last dime is gone, I'll sit on the curb outside with a pencil and a ten cent notebook and start the whole thing over again.

Some days you're a bug, some days you're a windshield.

the sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong. Now, I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong, to measure yourself at least once, to find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions, facing blind, deaf stone alone, with nothing to help you but your own hands and your own head...

Dawn came on us like a betrayer; it seemed as though the new sun rose as an ally of our enemies to assist in our destruction.

fingers clubbed with heart disease, distorted with arthritis, clutched in agony, mottled blue from poisons, nicotine-stained, cut or weathered, grazed in a fall,

At the end of the day, the enemy is going to be sorry he ever messed with you. You're about to become his worst nightmare a million times over. He thought he could wear you down, sure that after a while you'd give up without much of a fight. Well, just wait till he encounters the fight of God's Spirit in you. Because . . . This. Means. War.

Always,always break through the challenges.

At the time of the last sentence, you will realize that disappointment with deprivation is so whopping.

Crisis is a crisis - so what ?!

Even in the most difficult of circumstances, there are some leading solutions.

Leave no challenge unbeaten.

Many successes lie behind things that scare you. Do not wait, move forward and face challenges with courage and vitality.

Never give in. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.

No matter what you're going through right now, remember that there is a power within you that's greater than any challenge you will ever face.