Quotes About Adversity

Adversity is a crossroads that makes a person choose one of two paths: character or compromise. Every time he chooses character, he becomes stronger, even if that choice brings negative consequences.

War is hell and all that, but it has a good deal to recommend it. It wipes out all the small nuisances of peace time.

Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fail, but because each time they fall. They never fail to rise again.

There was a long time I had no job security, no options and no education.

In all evils which admit a remedy, impatience is to be avoided, because it wastes that time and attention in complaints, that, if properly applied might remove the cause.

Sometimes you've got to eat a turd sandwich; makes the ribeye taste better next time.

Any time you step forward, someone gets upset.

Moments in time when the world is changing bring out the best and the worst in people.

Recession always encourages entrepreneurialism and innovation. It does that every time because when people have no options they look at other things.

I was slipping, man, and it was definetly time to get a grip.

That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.

Everyone thinks this way at some point. The important thing is to power through and get to learning. If you really don't have the time Let Me Handle Your Analytics.

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

I have tried my hand at bribery, blackmail, and deceit. And I've served time for everything, cept beggin on the street.

I was very tiny...I spent most of my time stuffed into lockers. Thank god for cell phones, or I'd still be there.

Despite my exhaustion I have a devil of a time getting to sleep because of the rats above my bed and a pig who lives beneath my room.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

The people got daily worse from the cold and the bad water, and they must all have perished if they had not discovered the port about the time they did.

I feel like, with ski racing, you need to have a short memory. You crash all the time, and sometimes it's a really bad one, but sometimes it's not so bad.

When you're up against the clock and break-outs are happening, all the time, and it's literally rushing in on you, you do what you have to do.