Quotes About Adversity

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

Right now, I'm following the Buddhist principle: Smile as abuse is hurled your way and this too shall pass.

when life shovels shit on you, shrug it off, tread it in, and you will always stand higher in life.

We can develop wisdom through the conditions and the experiences that we have in this life—which are not guaranteed always to be the best.

When things all around us are bleak, the Word gives us the opposite message: God is sovereign and will work his purposes out through the apparent setbacks. This

Your path to this point, the trials you have suffered... taking each of those things that knocked you down and made you grind your teeth and then standing up again is what makes a true hero.

During the war there was a popular song called "Father, You Were Strong" ("Chichi yo, anata wa tsuyokatta"), but I want to say "Mother, You Were Strong.

Curse you Kakarrot!

No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

Your organs are all failing, but your cancer...well, your cancer is doing great.

Funny how that works. Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.

If only it were so easy. Real-world bad dreams are much worse.

There's no such thing as merit separated from biography, he had told me. The only question is whether you're going to let your biography hold you down or help you up.

Whether everything goes right or nothing goes your way, booze always seems like a good idea.

Mieux vaut un désastre qu'un désêtre.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

You're going to learn if something's bad. It's not like you're going to say, 'Well, that lion was really unpleasant. I think maybe I'll come back here and see if I like it the next time.

Owl was explaining that in a case of Sudden and Temporary Immersion the Important Thing was to keep the Head Above Water...

Rabbit scratched his whiskers thoughtfully, and pointed out that, when once Pooh was pushed back, he was back, and of course nobody was more glad to see Pooh than he was, still there it was, some lived in trees and some lived underground, and-- "You mean I'd never get out?" said Pooh. "I mean," said Rabbit, "that having got so far, it seems a pity to waste it.

Dwight David Eisenhower never led a single soldier into battle. Before World War II, he had never even heard a shot fired in anger. His only "combat wound" was the bad knee, weakened by a West Point football injury, that he twisted helping push a jeep out of the Normandy mud. Yet it was Ike Eisenhower who, as supreme Allied commander in Europe, was responsible for leading the greatest military enterprise in history.

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.

God didn't give man wings; He gave him the brains and the spirit to give himself wings. Just as He gave us the capacity to laugh when we hurt, or to struggle on when we feel like giving up. I've come to believe that how we choose to live with pain, or injustice, or death...is the true measure of the Divine within us.

Learn how to smile in the cannibal pot and life will be so much easier.

She had never been afraid of the dark, but then she had never known a dark like this before.