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Topic·Overcoming adversity✕clear

Philosophical literature

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Twilight of the Idols · 1889

★ 7.7

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have no winced nor cried aloud; Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

William Ernest Henley

Invictus · 1888

★ 5.1

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Optimism · 1903

★ 4.5

Philosophical literature

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

58

★ 3.9

Film · Superhero (film) · Crime drama (film) · Superhero · Crime drama

I believe whatever doesn't kill you, simply makes you...stranger.

The Dark Knight · 2008

★ 3.9

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

65

★ 3.8

Scripture · Religious literature

In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

John 16:33 · 90

★ 3.8

Allegory · Religious literature

He that is down needs fear no fall He that is low, no pride; He that is humble ever shall Have God to be his guide.

The Pilgrim's Progress from this World to that Which is to Come · 1678

★ 3.7

Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue.

1625

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming.

Theodore Roosevelt

1910

★ 3.6

Novel · Historical literature

The things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.

Bring Up the Bodies · 2012

★ 3.6

Novel · Satire

Our greatest glory is, not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Oliver Goldsmith

The Citizen of the World · 1761

★ 3.5

Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

Adam Bede · 1859

★ 2.1

Autobiography and memoir

Moments of crisis produce in man a redoubling of life.

Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand

1850

★ 1.9

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

1916

★ 1.9

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

Boris Pasternak

1958

★ 1.9

Pamphlet · Political literature

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

The American Crisis · 1776

★ 1.2