2,568 Quotes About Adversity

While many of the established media make losses or go bankrupt, WikiLeaks has survived a major conflict with a superpower, including an unlawful economic blockade by its banks and credit card companies and the detention of its editor. We have no debts. We have not had to fire staff. We have never lost a court case related to our publishing. We have never been forced to censor. Adversity has hardened us.

I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.

When adversity hits, go out and learn something.

Dealing with adversity is something you just can't coach or teach. You just have to deal with it. In a way, it's been nice because we're all learning and growing. Once we got past the stage where we were making errors, we started to understand what we are capable of doing. There's always a chance.

The cucumber is bitter? Then throw it out. There are brambles in the path? Then go around. That's all you need to know.

Nothing befalls a man except what is in his nature to endure.

When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstance revert at once to yourself and don't lose the rhythm more than you can help. You'll have a better grasp of harmony if you keep going back to it.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days, you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.