Quotes About Adversity

Adversity introduces a man to himself.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

In the midst of every crisis, lies great opportunity.

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

In times of crisis people are generally blind to everything outside their immediate necessities.

Entre las dificultades se esconde la oportunidad

In my opinion, the present symptoms of decadence are explained by the fact that the development of industry and machinery has made the struggle for existence very much more severe, greatly to the detriment of the free development of the individual.

Out of clutter, find simplicity. From disorder, find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

They say that everything that happens is for the better. I am not sure about "everything." But what is for sure, that it is strictly up to us to turn our "loss" into our "victory.

Las gentes me cortejan en la medida que no las moleste. Pero cuando pretendo servir a objetivos que no les convienen pasan immediatamente al insulto, mientras que los indiferentes se esconden detras de su cobardía

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Quando si chiude una porta, si può aprire di nuovo, perché di solito è così che funzionano le porte.

En los momentos de crisis, solo la imaginación es más importante que el conocimiento.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

people undertake some new task not because of a challenge, but because of the assumed absence of a challenge because the task looks easy…and then, once they are stuck with it, they have willy-nilly to overcome the unsuspected difficulties—and sometimes they even succeed.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Experience is not what happens to you its what you do with what happens to you.

its not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens you