Quotes About Adversity

Sooner or later the Narrative will come for each of us.

It seems like a good way to grow up," I told her. "It was. But raising a child holds no guarantees. You can follow all the right steps, do all the right things, and still something can go wrong— Actually, no. That's a word my husband would use. I won't say wrong anymore, I'll say differently than planned. That's what happened to my daughter when she reached her teens.

The wolf from the door.

A strange species we are. We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, and sick.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

I was bullied as a kid, and I got a job on television. And I had a camera. And so I wanted to go after those business bullies. And I just have been following that instinct.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Joy never feasts so high as when the first course is of misery.

We couldn't get the car back until well after the end of the race and we had very little time for repairs.

As my exciting story began I was being punched in the stomach.

As my exciting story opens, I am being punched in the stomach. But I guess a lot of stories start that way.

It was the nose of a champion still, and wind and dark and snow could not prevail against it – there was a grouse in the brush heap.

like a bad case of measles (the way events fall out), but not a good case of wine (that is a homonym).

Poverty can't make you miserable; only a bad character and a weak spirit can do that.

no matter how tough you think you are, thought you were, you haven't been around long enough to be tested in many, many ways.

I've already been eaten alive once on this trip. I'm not going to let that happen again.

But I don't believe in heroes anymore. I just believe in people coping with their lives as best they can. You do what you have to do, and in some ways you have no more choice about it than a rock has about falling from a high place.

If she must face the fact that she was fearful, she would also face the fear and overcome it.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.

We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Others cowered beside their vehicles, literally losing