Quotes About Adversity

At last you get in – but you hear a step: The ogre, Life, comes into the room, (He was waiting and heard the clang of the spring) To watch you nibble the wondrous cheese, And stare with his burning eyes at you, And scowl and laugh, and mock and curse you, Running up and down in the trap, Until your misery bores him.

But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life.

he couldn't help but laugh. "I was lying there bleeding, I needed 40 stitches, and everyone ran to Edgar. Only one guy came to me. Junior. He leaned over me as I lay on the ground, my eyelid hanging off, and told me, 'Edgar's hurt. You're screwed.

in China, where a career of banditry in early youth often indicated a man of strong character and purpose.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Every man is a reformer until reform tramps on his toes.

Life is either always a tight-rope or a featherbed. Give me a tight-rope.

Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

A man must either fall or rise in adversity.

Self-pity, a destroyer of perspective.

THE majority of us are permitted to cope with the important events of our lives in a decently leisurely manner – with ample breathing-space, that is to say, in which to assimilate one shock and recuperate before the next.

I have been seriously afraid at times but have used my fear as a stimulating factor rather than allowing it to paralyse me. My abilities have not been outstanding, but I have had sufficient strength and determination to meet my challenges and have usually managed to succeed with them.

Ay me, how many perils do enfoldThe righteous man, to make him daily fall.

Aye me, how many perils do enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall? Were not, that heavenly grace doth him uphold, And steadfast truth acquite him out of all.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.