Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.

Gravity was something you could beat; all it took was hydrogen, hot air, or even a bit of rope. But being a girl was a miserable, never-ending struggle.

THE LORD. You've nothing more to say to me? You come but to complain unendingly? Is never aught right to your mind? MEPHISTOPHELES. No, Lord! All is still downright bad, I find.

The question, therefore, is not whether a man is weak or strong, but whether he can endure the full extent of his sufferings, be they of a moral or physical nature.

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of life.

So all in their different fashions pursued their daily lives, thoughtfully or not; everything seemed to be following is usual course, as is the way in monstrously strange circumstances when everything is at stake: we go on with our lives as though nothing were the matter.

We human bekngsoften complain that there are so few good days and so many bad ones; but I think we are generally wrong. If our hearts were always open to enjoy the good, which God gives us Every day, then we should also have enough strength to hear the evil, whenever it comes.

Si notre coeur était toujours ouvert au bien que Dieu nous envoie chaque jour, nous aurions alors assez de force pour supporter le mal quand il se présente.

Now, to go out into the world and bear The earth's whole pain and joy, all this I dare; To fight with tempests anywhere, And in the grinding shipwreck stand and not despair!

Bakat dikembangkan dalam ketenangan, Watak dibentuk dalam kegalauan dunia.

It is much easier to die than to bear a life of misery with fortitude.

Nothing is harder to bear than a succession of fair days.

düzelece?ime söz veriyorum; her zaman yapt???m gibi yazg?n?n önümüze ç?kard??? her küçük kederi art?k eveleyip gevelemeyece?im ve geçmi? benim için geçmi?te kalacak.

insanlar hem kendileri hem ba?kalar? için her ?eyi zorla?t?r?yorlar; ancak buna, örne?in bir da?? a?mak zorunda olan bir yolcu gibi boyun e?mek gerekir, da? olmasa, yol çok rahat ve k?sa olacakt?r; ama o da? oradaysa, a?maktan ba?ka çare de yoktur.

I have so much to endure! Have men before me ever been so wretched?

eu acho tão espantoso que se chame de covarde ou de desgraçado àquele que se priva da vida, como acharia impertinente chamar de covarde ao que sucumbe a uma febre maligna.

Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days.

El talento se nutre en la soledad; el carácter se forma en las tempestuosas oleadas del mundo.

freilich, wäre der Berg nicht da, so wär der Weg viel bequemer und kürzer; er ist nun aber da, und man soll hinüber!

las aflicciones de los hombres serían menores si no se empeñasen con tanta imaginación (¡Dios sabrá por qué los ha hecho así!) en rememorar los males pasados en lugar de soportar un presente anodino.

Du mußt steigen oder sinken, Du mußt herrschen und gewinnen, Oder dienen und verlieren, Leiden oder triumphieren, Amboß oder Hammer sein.

For he who in unsettle times is weak, Adds to the evil, and expands its growth.

Through the rain and snow,