Quotes About Adversity

The world break everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.

But man is not made for defeat," he said. "A man can be destroyed but not defeated. THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places.

A kidder gets to be an awful thing around a camp if his stuff goes sort of sour.

E' la guerra dissi. In guerra è necessario mantenere la disciplina. E per vivere sotto quella disciplina noi dovremmo morire? Tanto senza disciplina moriremo tutti.

Quando le cose vanno bene e sei tu a sentirti giù di corda, un bicchiere può parti sentir meglio. Ma quando sono le cose ad andar male e tu bene, un bicchiere non può far altro che chiarirti ulteriormente il concetto.

There's something romantic about poverty when you're young and hopeful.

El mundo nos rompe a todos, mas después, algunos se vuelven fuertes en los lugares rotos

Everyone is broken by life, but some people are stronger in the broken places.

There's something romantic about poverty when you're young and hopeful.

The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills.

And what beat you, he thought. Nothing, he said aloud. I went out too far.

Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.

A strange occurrence was the sudden appearance of eight emperor penguins from a crack 100 yds. away at the moment when the pressure upon the ship was at its climax. They walked a little way towards us, halted, and after a few ordinary calls proceeded to utter weird cries that sounded like a dirge for the ship. None of us had ever before heard the emperors utter any other than the most simple calls or cries, and the effect of this concerted effort was almost startling.

Difficulties are just things to overcome.

Just when things looked their worse, they changed for the best. I have marveled often at the thin line that divides success from failure and the sudden turn that leads from apparently certain disaster to comparative safety.

Spotted Fawn left a legacy as well. She taught me, and many others, that it's not enough to plan and execute a project intellectually. If a project is to grow and prosper, it needs to be rooted in the spirit, in the body, in the community, as well as in the mind. And in her final months of life, Spotted Fawn bore her adversity with dignity and good humor. She was neither a whiner nor a complainer.

most people would rather live in the predictability of captivity than risk the uncertainty that comes in a fight for freedom.

I made a decision that while cancer may define how I die, it would not define how I live.

no debemos permitir que el temor nos robe nuestro futuro, y cada día que caminamos por esta tierra debemos estar seguros de no guardar nada para la próxima vida. Nunca debes permitir que el temor te mantenga atrapado. El momento en que decides jugar a lo seguro, has perdido el partido. En lugar de huir de tus temores, apóyate en ellos, porque al otro lado de ellos está el futuro que anhelas. Esos momentos forman carácter y forjan el futuro.

We have no control over the reality that in this world we will have trouble, but we have control over whether we decide to allow our hearts to be troubled.

Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas.

Chiar în vârtejul relelelor daÈ›i sufletelor voastre veselia cea de toate zilele, c?ci pentru morÈ›i belÈ™ugul aurului nu mai are preÈ›.

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