Quotes About Adversity

Its the same for every career and life decision. You just have to keep driving down the road. It's going to bend and curve, and you're going to speed up and slow down, but the road keeps going.

Let the naysayers nay. They will eventually grow tired of naying.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.' I've revised this saying to make it more accurate: 'What doesn't kill you puts you in a whole lot of pain and makes you cry a lot and want to crawl in a hole forever and live with rodents.

Well, crying's good. It prepares you for life. The more often I see children crying, the more often I think, "That's gonna be a healthy adult." That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying involved. So you'd better cry now and get used to it.

When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.

Integrity, firmness, and perseverance are qualities that all should seek earnestly to cultivate; for they clothe the possessor with a power which is irresistible—a power which makes him strong to do good, strong to resist evil, strong to bear adversity.

A man whose heart is stayed upon God is just the same in the hour of his most afflicting trials and most discouraging surroundings as when he was in prosperity, when the light and favor of God seemed to be upon him.

No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Thrown into the gutter, yet full of sense and personality. But life was that way. You couldn't tell what made personality, either in man or dog. Looking

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

We tend to overemphasize how a negative outcome will affect us. In reality, people are much more resilient than they realize, and "bad outcomes" often are not nearly as bad as people thought they would be. In short, we can take more risks knowing that our "mistakes" (if that's even what they turn out to be) won't be as negative as we imagine they will be.

I let the insults go by. A good swordsman doesn't pay attention to words in a fight.

It was his way of gaining some control when life got stormy. He couldn't will the rain clouds from the horizon, but he could control how he would react to them.

Look, when do the really interesting things happen? Not when you've brushed your teeth and put on your pyjamas and are cozy in bed. They happen when you are cold and uncomfortable and hungry and don't have a roof over your head for the night.

TURTLE SPENT THE night at the bedside of eighty-five-year-old Julian R. Eastman. T. R. Wexler had a master's degree in business administration, an advanced degree in corporate law, and had served two years as legal counsel to the Westing Paper Products Corporation. She had made one million dollars in the stock market, lost it all, then made five million more.

Who fills an office must learn to bear reproach and blame.

Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

There are certain men who, when faced with the choice of dying or doing the impossible, elect to live. This story is written in honor of their kind.

problems around sleeping, fatigue, boredom, killing time, storage, health, sex, along with harassment and dozens of unpredictable difficulties encountered on the street -- were some of the 'little murders of everyday life' that confronted homeless women.

I'll tell you what: I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand here before you today beholden to no human cocksucker.

But some climbs you have to make alone.

When you're down, remember your triumphs. [...] Sometimes you get in trouble and crash. Other times: just a bumpy landing.

You move forward. You face up to your challenges. You don't retreat. You're young, and sometimes you'll wish you could. But don't.