Quotes About Adversity

Words do nothing against them in the short term, so we bow to the storm winds and wait. We wait, and we have faith.

James R. Chiles

We must assume every event has significance and contains a message that pertains to our questions...this especially applies to what we used to call bad things...the challenge is to find the silver lining in every event, no matter how negative.

You just can't keep your ass out of trouble, can you?" Kowalski said. The big man had stripped out of his protective wetsuit and wore boots, a pair of knee-length cargo shorts, and a Tommy Bahama shirt.

He counted his steps. That was how you got through tough things. You counted. Once you said, "one," then you knew "two" was coming, and "three" right after that.

When mankind pushes, natures sometimes pushes back

There are two kinds of weakness, that which breaks and that which bends.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or by the handle.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Marilah kita bergembira. Ingatlah bahwa kemalangan yang paling sulit ditanggung adalah yang tidak pernah menimpa kita.

He was a man whom prosperity harmed.

I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like molten lead

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself. It

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

pair of Jacks. Not much of a hand." "We'll play what we're dealt. That's what we always do.

If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.

He is being nibbled to death by ducks. --More Later, Less the Same

I've seen fire and I've seen rainI've seen sunny days that I thought would never endI've seen lonely times when I could not find a friendBut I always thought that I'd see you again.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solutions, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

Es muy ruso quejarse continuamente de lo mal que van las cosas. Si la vida te va bien, cállatelo. No vayas a tentar al diablo...

A veces tienes que perder para ganar.

Cuanto más agitas los árboles más hojas caen de ellos.