Quotes About Adversity

Homer was so used to being told off in his life that you might as well have told a rock off for being sedimentary

In this life of froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone. Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

no enemy too smart or too strong

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Men will not always die quietly.

he, indeed, who gave fewest pledges to Fortune, has yet suffered her heaviest visitations.

Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you.

While serving as a pallbearer for one of his Naval Academy classmates on a cold, rainy day at Arlington National Cemetery, my grandfather listened to a young officer suggest that he button up his raincoat to protect himself from the elements. The old man, raincoat flapping in the wind, looked at his solicitous subordinate and said, "You don't think I got where I am by taking care of my health, do you?

But, as Winston Churchill observed, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. Life is a learning process and you have to try to learn what's best for you. Let me tell you, life is not fun when you're banging your head against a brick wall all the time.

The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose.

I firmly believe that one of the hallmarks of a champion—any champion—is the ability to absorb losses and regain confidence immediately.

As C.S. Lewis observed in The Silver Chair, one book in the Chronicles of Narnia series: "Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

In even the bleakest situations, there's usually some good to be salvaged.

The right choice was usually the more difficult one.

everyone has her baggage and her sad stories. What differentiates people is how they choose to deal with them.

Underneath, they have chosen a Camus quote: In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Hard things are hard.

Bad things can happen, terrible things. You can lose the people you love the most; you can lose homes, cars, antiques, hand-knotted silk rugs that cost five figures; you can discover that the very life you're living is a terrific lie. And despite this, despite all this, the sun will continue to rise.

Some women, Ava realizes, would crumple in a pile and feel sorry for themselves, but not Jennifer. Jennifer puts on her gnome sweater.

It's a journey or it's a battle—you pick what you want to call it—but someday soon, we are going to triumph. We are all going to call ourselves survivors.