Quotes About Adversity

Surviving dangerous times require a sense of humor.

Hemos fracasado ?gimió Julieta. Merlín les sonrió con gran ternura. ?No ?contestó?. Esto no es un fracaso, sólo es una experiencia.

character is not made in a crisis- it is only exhibited

There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.

All those who try to go it sole alone,Too proud to be beholden for relief,Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

It asks a little of us here.It asks of us a certain height,So when at times the mob is swayedTo carry praise or blame too far,We may take something like a starTo stay our minds on and be staid.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against with.

The only way round is through.

The rain to the wind said, You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged--though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.

Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power.

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

A place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

The greatest test of courage is to bear defeat without losing heart.

Nothing discloses real character like the use of power. It is easy for the weak to be gentle. Most people can bear adversity. But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.

Then he closed his eyes, and like millions of his fellow humans, wondered why troubles could never come singly, but in avalanches, so that you became increasingly destabilized with every blow that hit you.

It's an illness," she said, although she made the words sound like "it's uh nillness." Nillness, thought Strike, for a second distracted. Sometimes illness turned slowly to nillness, as was happening to Bristow's mother... sometimes nillness rose to meet you out of nowhere, like a concrete road slamming your skull apart.

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen. Henrik Ibsen,

Strike had not been able to guard against warm feelings for Robin, who had stuck by him when he was at his lowest ebb and helped him turn his fortunes around; nor, having normal eyesight, could he escape the fact that she was a very good-looking woman.

He's the turd that won't flush," as Strike put it to Lucy,

Lucky" was what people who couldn't bear to contemplate horrors needed to hear maimed and terrorized survivors call themselves.

Is demum miser est, cuius nobilitas miserias nobilitat. Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. Lucius Accius, Telephus