Quotes About Adversity

And what of failure?"He shrugged."The consequence of not succeesing.Remember what Homer said.Circumstances rule men, not men circumstances.

For us, there is no spring. Just the wind that smells fresh before the storm.

What though the field be lost?All is not lost; th' unconquerable will,And study of revenge, immortal hate,And courage never to submit or yield.

Awake, arise, or be forever fallen!

Before mine eyes in opposition sitsGrim Death my son and foe.

Was I deceiv'd or did a sable cloudTurn forth her silver lining on the night?

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'dTo hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days,On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues;In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round,And solitude.

And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

life is not about what we see, it is about the way it goes.

What does not destroy me makes me strong.

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

My unique brand of depression responds to stress; specifically, it blows up under stress. When the going gets tough, I don't get amped up, I get despondent

One of the first lessons of life in Greece is that everything is difficult and nothing is impossible.

They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart.

It made a change in himself, and we must not change ourselves much. We can stand only so many—so few—changes. To know that there were people who he thought were his friends, his good friends, but who were his enemies—that was going to make a change, he knew. When was the last time there had been a change in himself? He thought and thought, rejecting items that were not change but only removal or adornment.

you can't always choose the path that you walk in life, but you can always choose the manner in which you walk it.

Comfort is popular, but courage changes lives.

Frequently our apparent mistakes give birth to our biggest blessings.

When life is getting us down and we start to hear the refrain Why me? Poor me playing in our heads, we can stop and recognize that moment as an inflection point. We can move forward with the same attitude, or we can actively try to turn it around.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

The bit was in my mouth. At last, for the first time since sleeping in crab-infested blankets in the dressing-room at Hayling Island, living on evaporated milk and biscuits, swanking about as a peroxided Hamlet, to an audience of geriatric holiday-makers, I had contrived some sort of personal control over the whole brash enterprise. I would only have myself to blame. The release from benign paternalism was firingly enjoyable.

The reason God tells you to hold fast is because there is a force that is going to seek to pull your blessings away from you. You are not going to keep your healing, you are not going to keep your blessings, and you are not going to keep all the good things of God if you get passive and let the devil slip up and take them away from you. The Bible says, "But hold fast what you have till I come!

Lord, I do not believe all that my eyes see, all that my body feels, and all that the enemy would bring against me.

Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it.