Quotes About Adversity

Whatever course you decide upon there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires....courage.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.

The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks.

Work and learn in evil days, in insulted days, in days of debt and depression and calamity. Fight best in the shade of the cloud of arrows.

As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.

Whatever you do you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there will always be someone to tell you that you are wrong.

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe. So it is in rugged crises, in unweariable endurance, and in aims which put sympathy out of question, that the angel is shown.

We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

We want a ship in these billows we inhabit.

But the President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters who stand erect behind the throne.

Tis not in the high stars alone, Nor in the cup of budding flowers, Nor in the redbreast's mellow tone, Nor in the bow that smiles in showers, But in the mud and scum of things There alway, alway something sings.

let him look into [fear's] eye and search its nature, inspect its origin, - see the whelping of this lion, - which lies no great way back; he will then find in himself a perfect comprehension of its nature and extent; he will have made his hands meet on the other side, and can henceforth defy it and pass on superior.

Do what we can, summer will have its flies.

Bir tehdit kar??s?nda tazelenen insanlar vard?r. Tutum ve tasarruf melekelerini deÄŸil; anlay??, sabitlik, özveriye haz?r olma gibi özellikleri ÅŸart koÅŸarak, çoÄŸunluÄŸu korkutan ve felç eden bir buhran, bu insanlara t?pk? gelinleri gibi güzel ve sevilesi gelir. s.178

Our strength grows out of our weakness

Suffering is the sandpaper of our incarnation. It does its work of shaping us.