Quotes About Adversity

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Every time you meet a crisis and live through it, you make it simpler for the next time. If you draw back and say, "I am afraid to do that," because you might do or say something wrong or you might make a mistake, you will become timid and negative as a person.

There is no experience from which you can't learn something.

It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head.

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Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Mulheres são como saquinhos de chá: você nunca sabe o quanto elas são fortes, até colocá-las na água quente.

Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

Often people have asked me, "How do you recover from disaster?" I don't know any answer except the obvious one: You do it by meeting it and going on. From each you learn something, from each you acquire additional strength and confidence in yourself to meet the next one when it comes.

A woman is like a teabag. You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.

I was not the woman who breaks into pieces under the blows of abandonment and absence, who goes mad, who dies. Only a few fragments had splintered off, for the rest I was well. I was whole, whole I would remain. To those who hurt me, I react giving back in kind. I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

I am the queen of spades, I am the wasp that stings, I am the dark serpent. I am the invulnerable animal who passes through fire and is not burned.

We grew up with the duty to make it difficult for others before they made it difficult for us.

I said to myself every day: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.

Non ho nostalgia della nostra infanzia, è piena di violenza. Ci succedeva di tutto, in casa e fuori, ma non ricordo di aver mai pensato che la vita che c'era capitata fosse particolarmente brutta. La vita era così è basta, crescevamo con l'obbligo di renderla difficile agli altri prima che gli altri la rendessero difficile a noi.

When you haven't been in the world long, it's hard to comprehend what disasters are at the origin of a sense of disaster: maybe you don't even feel the need to. Adults

Si me veo expuesta a los lagartos, combatiré contra los lagartos. Si me veo expuesta a las hormigas, combatiré contra las hormigas. Si me veo expuesta a los ladrones, combatiré contra los ladrones. Si me veo expuesta a mí misma, lucharé contra mí.