Quotes About Adversity

No stranger to trouble myself, I am learning to care for the unhappy. Virgil, Aeneid,

Nam in omni adversitate fortunae infelicissimum est genus infortunii, fuisse felicem. For in every ill-turn of fortune the most unhappy sort of unfortunate man is the one who has been happy. Boethius, De Consolatione Philosophiae

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

So whenas fortune all her spite hath shown, Some blissful hours at last must needs appear; Else would afflicted wights oft-times despair . . .

Bestigui's statement presented the unassailable front of a rock face without crampons.

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

dismissal—" "It weren't coz of tha'," said Holly.

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

a fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.

The mighty are brought low by many a thing Too small to name… Helen Murphy Hunt Danger

but I've lost count of the number of times things like that happen to me.

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

Unhappy is he whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.

But life's taught me things can always get worse than they are.

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If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you.

In a life, in any life, bad things happen. Many good things happen, of course, we know what they are-joy, tenderness, success beauty-but some bad things happen as well. Sometimes, very bad things happen. Children sicken and die. People we love don't love us, can never love us.

When you're young, and you head out to wonderful, everything is fresh and bright as a brand- new penny, but before you get to wonderful you're going to have to pass through all right. And when you get to all right, stop and take a good, long look, because that may be as far as you're ever going to go.

She had no one in the world. Her whole world, what was left of it, was here, and there was no way to get back to where she had been before. The

Every day there was some new tragedy, some new and inexplicable failure of the ordinary.

Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

The important thing to remember in life is that regardless of how bad you might end up gettin' treated, don't never let nobody with an agenda stop your train from makin' it to where it's goin'.

When you have fans who are hassling you the entire game and you ignore them, they respect you because their job is to try and distract you. And if they don't distract you, that means you're focused on doing your job. And who knows, by the end, sometimes you even win them over.