Quotes About Adversity

I knew what it was like to be poor, and that once you had become rich, anything was better than being poor again.

No one misses out on the hardness of life. Everyone just tries to find what happiness and beauty they can. p343

In the concrete jungle it's sink or swim: you can't be timid or tentative; you have to forge through, make your mark, enter the fray.

I walk down the street, I fall down a hole. It takes me forever to figure out how to climb out. I walk down the street, fall down a hole, this time I know how to get out. I walk down the street, I walk around the hole. Next time I walk down a different street!

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

Even if life sometimes knocks you down, you're going to get right back up again.

There is another reason ever-single women fare even better than previously married women in later life. They mastered the single life long ago. From structuring social events in a culture that caters to couples, to figuring out how to work and get all the tasks of everyday life accomplished when there may or may not be others readily available to do their unfair share, always-single women have been there, done that. It is not a new or daunting challenge.

That which does not kill us," I said, "has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

The night may be dark and full of terrors, I thought, but I've got a big stick.

As Conan the Barbarian famously said, "That which does not kill us does not kill us.

The problem with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

Here is a bit of man's wisdom for you – when you think things can't get worse, they usually do.

If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they'll say it's the variety.

Ah, yes, librarianship,' said Ms Winstanley. 'It's not for the faint hearted.

It seemed that her prospects were bleak but often when things are at their most desperate they become progressively worse leading to a spiral of despair that ends in inevitable destruction.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

There's something really great and romantic about being poor and sleeping on couches.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

as Abe Lincoln said, I was sick from my stovepipe hat to the worn out soles of my shoes.

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Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.