Quotes About Adversity

She fastened the invisible corset of her composure snugly around herself and prepared to move forward with her plan.

There are a lot of hard things in this world," he said. "You don't need to beat yourself up over something that's out of your control.

When you're caught up in the storm or, you know, just the turmoil of everything that there is another side and you do get through it. And you know, just standing by the truth and doing the right thing.

I've learned how to make a meal out of pain, how to brand my sorrow.

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war.

Calamities are of two kinds misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Pakistan is the country of Impossible men

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

He says to do a thing when you are really afraid is braver than if you felt no fear at all.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.

There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls.

Sometimes the only sense we can make out of life is a sense of humor.

Hope is the nurse of misery.

Never trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

Someday what's easy might not be enough

oui, à chaque pas dans la vie, on rencontre une déception, une désillusion, une humiliation.

Peut-être faudra-t-il que quelqu'un ose leur apprendre à regarder la défaite dans les yeux, ose leur expliquer que pour se relever il faut d'abord admettre qu'on est à terre. Peut-être faudra-t-il que quelqu'un leur dise la vérité un jour.

Clawing its way towards us, the ugliness of the world tore away our hiding-place.

Zatvaranje u mentalitet napadnutog još je mnogo razornije nego sam napad.

Il arrive que la vie manque de tact, et qu'elle déploie ses incongruités au mauvais moment, quand nous n'avons aucune envie de sourire.

Let your tears roll tonight, but tomorrow you will start the battle again. What defeats us, always, is just our own sorrow.

Courage is not what it took to survive. Quite the opposite! You had to be a coward to survive.

And what is life without incident? Is such a life even possible?' He took a sip of his water: 'How do we become human except in the face of adversity?