Quotes about Adversity
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
- Audre Lorde
You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for.
- Audre Lorde
Being out of work brought a lot of new and starkly instructive experiences.
- Audre Lorde
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
- Ayn Rand
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
- Ayn Rand
Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.
- Ayn Rand
He has once built his fortune, starting out with empty hands; now he had to rebuild his life, starting out with an empty spirit
- Ayn Rand
There's no surer way to destroy a man than to force him into a spot where he has to aim at not doing his best, where he has to struggle to do a bad job, day after day.
- Ayn Rand
Use fear to become braver, pain to become stronger, trials to become wiser, and misfortune to become better.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Before you wear a crown of gold, life sometimes makes you wear a crown of thorns.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Enough pain will keep you humble.Enough grief will keep you compassionate.Enough trouble will keep you strong.Enough hardship will keep you grateful.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.
- Matshona Dhliwayo