Quotes About Adversity

She liked such stories because it helped people to believe in justice, which we had to believe in if we were not simply to give up in the face of adversity.

We cannot let wicked people spoil our lives for us, can we?

So much had occurred, and so many of the things that had happened were bad. And yet there had been good things—acts of kindness, acts of loyalty and generosity of spirit; why did we forget these and remember only the bad?

Things start badly—very badly—and then they change for the better and those who have nothing, or who are unhappy, or who live in fear, suddenly find that these things that were bad for them have gone." "It's like rain," said Mma Potokwane, who had not said much but had clearly been affected by the story. "The rains come and they wash everything away. The dryness, the thirst, the dust on your skin—these are washed away, Mma, all washed away.

There are plenty of people who might prefer to go sideways. What about them? How are we to inspire them?

Worse things have happened, is what she says in such circumstances. And I suppose she's right. There's always something worse happening elsewhere. It's worth reminding ourselves of that, I suppose.

If you have enemies, then your biggest enemy is yourself. Do you know that, Mma?

There are broad shoulders, the saying went, even where there are no broad shoulders.

was astonishing how life had a way of working out, even when everything looked so complicated and unpromising.

Everything could always be worse,' she would say, 'and so be grateful that things are only as bad as they are.' She

misery was nothing to do with objective good fortune. Misery was like bad weather; it was just there, and no number of optimistic comments could make the weather better.

From an evil dog be glad of a handful of hairs.

They say that misfortune is a good school. Yes, true. But happiness is the best university.

How much strength must one people have? And for how long must they have it?

squinting thousand-yard stare of a person who has lived both in bright sunshine and among crocodiles and hippos his whole life.

She'd done harder things in her life, she could do this. She had to.

He will increase in strength and honor by struggling with adversity, which he will convert into prosperity.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever.

Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)

Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.

Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.