Quotes About Adversity

No es secreto: son los tiempos difíciles los que traen el aprendizaje más profundo.

Poverty is like punishment for a crime you didn't commit.

One failure is worth seven and a half successes.

I had to succeed. Failure means I would have to be homeless again.

I learned many interesting things from Delia: for example, that she and Gulya had both married alcoholics, but Delia's alcoholic had taken all her money, whereas Gulya had managed her alcoholic well and taken all his money.

It was hard to feel cheerful when someone kept telling you you were a little fish in a big sea.

I learned many interesting things from Delia: for example, that she and Gulya had both married alcoholics, but Delia's alcoholic had taken all her money, whereas Gulya had managed her alcoholic well and taken all his money.

My father says that surviving a war makes you either very bitter or very frivolous.

After a few days, the physical symptoms passed. Inside my soul, I still felt like I had fallen off the end of the conveyor belt, but I was able to ear, read, swim, and hold my face together such that I wasn't constantly staring at people with the stricken eyes of death.

That rejection you went through, don't have it bring you down. It's only a splash in an ocean of opportunities.

Human nature is, and will always be, indelibly stamped by weakness. Indeed, we are so bound to our own defeat that it has become the means of our development.

I think that obstacles lead to growth and ultimately, the most learning I've done in my life is between jobs.

His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

On the other hand, less rigorous conditions of imprisonment have sometimes proved fruitful. Being cut off from the distractions of ordinary life encourages the prisoner with creative potential to call upon the resources of his imagination. As we shall see, a variety of authors have begun writing in prison, where this has been allowed; or have passed through periods of spiritual and mental turmoil which have later found expression in their works.

The mind must make its own happiness; any troubles can be endured if the sufferer has resources of his own to sustain him.

Did you ever know a poor man made better by law or a lawyer!' said Bunce bitterly.

In life we either become bitter or better'. And the only person who determines that outcome is ourselves.

Poverty is the schoolmaster of character.

It is always in the midst, in the epicenter, of your troubles that you find serenity.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

Even our misfortunes are a part of our belongings.