Adversity Quotes

Face to face, difficulties which appear really insuperable at a distance are very often removed altogether from our path.

Dangers which are warded off and difficulties which are overcome before they reach a crisis are utterly unrecognised.

The stern compression of circumstances, the twinges of adversity, the spur of slights and taunts in early years, are needed to evoke that ruthless fixity of purpose and tenacious wit without which great actions are seldom accomplished.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.

Danger, if met head on, can be nearly halved.

Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard.

Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable.

We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days.

When you feel you cannot continue in your position for another minute, and all that is in human power has been done, that is the moment when the enemy is most exhausted, and when one step forward will give you the fruits of the struggle you have borne.

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

Danger: if you meet it promptly and without flinching you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Sailing heart-ships through broken harbors out on the waves of the night, still the searcher must ride the dark horse racing alone in his fright.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

There's a strange sense of pleasure being beat to hell by a storm when you're on a ship that is not going to sink.

My folks ain't graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family - and I come from a big family.

We wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals; in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun. Well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals. Don't ask me why, thank God, and ask me how.

Should I just stop trying and give up? But then, that's exactly what they're waiting for me to do.

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.