Quotes About Adversity

When I look back through the 1980s and 1990s, those were some of the funniest experiences I had and, sometimes, some of the most difficult.

Lo importante no es lo que nos hace el destino, sino lo que nosotros hacemos de él.

if you run away your problems will run after you. Be undisturbed by a situation, and it will fall away of its own weight.

The deeper I go into myself the more I realize that I am my own enemy.

The challenge of creation reduces us to the inevitable. Our lives are full of tiny disasters.

My dear, it couldn't have lasted for ever … But you're a good man. And very clever… . You will get through….

It was as if a man should have jumped out of a frying pan into — a duckpond.

I seemed to perceive that my problem - that what I had to do to prepare myself for getting into contact with her, was just to get back into contact with life. I had been kept for twelve years in a rarefied atmosphere; what I then had to do was a little fighting with real life, some wrestling with men of business, some travelling amongst larger cities, something harsh, something masculine.

It is good that a man's enemies want him dead, for it proves he has lived a life of worth.

Now remember, when things look bad and it looks like you're not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. 'Cause if you lose your head and you give up then you neither live nor win. That's just the way it is.

Necessité fait gens méprendre Et faim saillir le loup du bois.

Yes, answered Sara, nodding. Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

Soldiers don't complain...I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

There's nothing so strong as rage, except what makes you hold it in—that's stronger. It's a good thing not to answer your enemies. I scarcely ever do.

Much more surprising things can happen to any one who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.

Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

You see, now that trials have come, they have shown that I am NOT a nice child. I was afraid they would. Perhaps... that is what they were sent for... I suppose there MIGHT be good in things, even if we don't see it.

Soldiers don't complain," she would say between her small, shut teeth, "I am not going to do it; I will pretend this is part of a war.

Dr. Warren was of the mental build of the man whose life would be interesting and full of outlook if it were spent on a desert island or in the Bastille.

I shall pretend that," she said; "and it will be a great comfort." Ermengarde was at once enraptured and awed. "And will you tell me all about it?" she said. "May I creep up here at night, whenever it is safe, and hear the things you have made up in the day? It will seem as if we were more 'best friends' than ever." "Yes," answered Sara, nodding. "Adversity tries people, and mine has tried you and proved how nice you are.

Much more surprising things can happen to anyone who, when a disagreeable or discouraged thought comes into his mind, just has the sense to remember in time and push it out by putting in an agreeable, determinedly courageous one. Two things cannot be in one place. Where you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.

She could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.

Them as is not wanted scarce ever thrives.

Frances Hodgson Burnett