Quotes About Adversity

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter.

Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them.

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.

Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.

We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens.

Once I blazed across the sky, Leaving trails of flame; I fell to earth, and here I lie - Who'll help me up again? -A Shooting Star

What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?

The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

Auch aus Steinen die einem in den Weg gelegt werden, kann man schöne Dinge bauen.

Suffer or triumph, be the hammer or the anvil.

one must submit, like a traveller who has to ascend a mountain: if the mountain was not there, the road would be both shorter and pleasanter; but there it is, and he must get over it.

By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

The world only goes forward because of those who oppose it.

Die Welt ist voller Torheit, Dumpfheit, Inkonsequenz und Ungerechtigkeit. Es gehört viel Mut dazu, diesen nicht das Feld zu räumen.

The question, therefore, is, not whether a man is strong or weak, but whether he is able to endure the measure of his sufferings.

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.

No one should desire to live in irregular circumstances; but if by chance a man falls into them, they test his character and show of how much determination he is capable.

That which disturbs your soul, you must not suffer