Quotes About Adversity

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

You cannot become a power in your community nor achieve enduring success in any worthy undertaking until you become big enough to blame yourself for your own mistakes and reverses.

There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.

It is just as important to move on in the wake of stunning success as in the wake of disaster.

In any profession, there are always ups and downs.

The need for challenge, the need to burst through the constrictions of tasks and situations already seen and mastered, can affect anyone, even those enjoying the greatest gains from success.

We had good years, with no violence, in a sense we were victims of our success.

I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle.

Sir," suddenly exclaimed the countess, after their walk had continued ten minutes in silence, "is it true that you have seen so much, travelled so far, and suffered so deeply?" "I have suffered deeply, madame," answered Monte Cristo. "But now you are happy?" "Doubtless," replied the count, "since no one hears me complain.

Those who are born with a silver spoon,' Emmanuel said, 'those who have never needed anything, do not understand what happiness is, any more than those who do not know the blessing of a clear sky and who have never entrusted their lives to four planks tossing on a raging sea.

misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect.

in the shipwreck of life — for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder.

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady

Il faut le malheur pour creuser certaines mines mystérieuses cachées dans l'intelligence humaine. (p. 174)

Bence insan bu kadar kolayca mutlu olmak için yarat?lmad?! Mutluluk, büyülü adalarda kap?lar?n? ejderhalar?n beklediÄŸi saraylar gibidir. Onu elde etmek için savaÅŸmak gerekir.

Vain onnettomuus voi kaivaa esiin ihmisälyssä piilevät salaperäiset aarteet; tarvitaan painetta, jotta ruuti räjähtää.

La dicha es como esos palacios de las islas encantadas, cuyas puertas guardan formidables dragones; preciso es combatir para conquistar

Ho l'impressione che l'uomo non possa essere felice così facilmente! La felicità è come quei palazzi delle isole incantate alle cui porte stanno a difesa i draghi: bisogna combattere per conquistarli.

Alas, mother, there are people who have suffered greatly, and who did not die, but raised a new fortune on the ruins of all those promises of happiness that heaven had made to them, and on the debris of all the hopes that God had given them!

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look into that storm and shout as you did in Rome. Do your worst, for I will do mine! Then the fates will know you as we know you.

If one's lot is cast among fools, it is necessary to study folly.

Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded to a person; in other words, the weak suffer more, where the trial is the same, than the strong. And, what are the elementary principles, we may ask, which compose human strength? Is it not - more than anything else - exercise, habit, experience?