Quotes About Adversity

The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.

The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, It's a slip and not a fall.

Amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance in God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

I have been too familiar with disappointments to be very much chagrined.

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

this too shall pass

All I can do is the best I can do. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

December] 20th. [1862] Now I can ride. I have a pumpkin in each end of my sack.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

The only difference between stepping stones and stumbling blocks is the way we address the rocks cast into our path.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

Solo hace falta un mal día para sumir al hombre mas cuerdo del mundo en la locura! Así de lejos esta el mundo de donde estoy yo, a solo un mal día

Hayat satranç gibidir. On parçan? kaybedip yine de kazanabilirsin...

Wine grapes are as sensitive to assaults as authors.

Much of what feels like mastery in adult life is actually the avoidance of a challenge.

There are no atheists in foxholes, and no liberals in bar fights, and what

Quote by Robert, a garçon who accepted a 'fat envelope' to leave the Balzar: Anyway it is only in moments of crisis that we find lucidity about ourselves—though only after the crisis is over. Still, that's enough lucidity for anyone. Anyway, it is all the lucidity that life will give you. The crucial thing is that is was _our choice._ We made it. We _chose_ to leave.

every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.

Among William Brewster's own children, landing at Plymouth Rock, were Fear, Love, Patience and Wrestling Brewster.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: Si abordas cada situación como asunto de vida o muerte, morirás muchas veces (Adam Smith)

In his Hymn to the Love of the Motherland, written after the first partition of Poland, Bishop Ignacy Krasicki, a Voltairian and no friend of the confederates, extolled the 'delights' of suffering and dying in the cause. Paoli

Life's tough and even tougher when you're stupid

Your body is a blade sharpened by tears