Quotes About Adversity

Kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er a' the ills o' life victorious.

The best laid schemes o' mice and menGang aft a-gley.

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy

The best-laid schemes o' mice an 'menGang aft agley.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us naught but grief an' pain For promised joy! Still thou art blest, compared wi' me! The present only toucheth thee:

In proving foresight may be vain: The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agley, An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy!

The best laid schemes o'mice an' men gang aft agley, An'lea'e us nought but grief an'pain, For promis'd joy...

The best laid schemes of mice and men often go astray

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men/Gang aft agley" (En iyi planlar? farelerin ve insanlar?n/S?kça ters gider)

Fickle Fortune: A Fragment Though fickle Fortune has deceived me, She pormis'd fair and perform'd but ill; Of mistress, friends, and wealth bereav'd me, Yet I bear a heart shall support me still. I'll act with prudence as far 's I'm able, But if success I must never find, Then come misfortune, I bid thee welcome, I'll meet thee with an undaunted mind.

Seneca thinks the gods are well pleased when they see great men contending with adversity.

Make a virtue of necessity.

Every man for himself, the devil for all.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours.

Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill

Between 1902 and 1913, according to his official biography, he was arrested eight times, was sent into exile seven times, and escaped from exile six times.[156] The exile from which he did not escape was the one to which he was sentenced in 1913 and from which he was freed by the February Revolution of 1917.

He soon recovered sufficiently to resume work, but suffered further strokes on December 13 and 22, after which he had to submit to a regime of greatly reduced activity.

You can't really comprehend events like that, I thought. You can only endure them.

Part of waging war is knowing when you're outgunned.

But it's not what you have that brings you victory, it's how you use it. When you have less, you are naturally more inventive.

Since you are on your own, it is up to you to foresee the changes going on right now in your profession. You must adapt your Life's Task to these circumstances. You do not hold on to past ways of doing things, because that will ensure you will fall behind and suffer for it. You are flexible and always looking to adapt. If change is forced upon you, you must resist the temptation to overreact or feel sorry for yourself.

Years later, a Japanese visitor tried to apologize to Mao for his country's invasion of China. Mao interrupted, "Should I not thank you instead?" Without a worthy opponent, he explained, a man or group cannot grow stronger.

Leave martyrdom alone: The pendulum will swing back your way eventually, and you should stay alive to see it.

Being attacked is a sign that you are important enough to be a target.