Quotes About Adversity

We are mortal, and the visage of failure is heinous to us. But we are not required to succeed. It is required of us only that we hold fast in every gale and let come what may.

Courage is for the lean. I am wiser.

Destruction was easier than preservation, and when destruction had risen high enough, mere men and women could not be condemned if they failed to throw back the tide.

No sigas esperando, el momento correcto nunca llega. Comienza desde donde estás y con las herramientas que tienes ahora. En el camino encontrarás mejores herramientas" - Napoleón Hill

No es lo que nos sucede, sino lo que hacemos con eso lo que hace la diferencia" - Nelson Mandela.

Soy más fuerte debido a los tiempos difíciles, más prudente debido a mis errores, y más feliz porque he conocido la tristeza. ALLISON VOGEL, ESCRITORA

None of us have any control over the deck or the hand we've been dealt. What we do have is total responibility as to how we play the hand.

if you were faced with something that appeared impossible, it just meant you were not looking at all of the possibilities.

I ain't as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was.

I was born for the storm, and a calm does not suit me.

The answer to your inquiry is quite simple. You have no need for enemies. You play that role for yourself with perfection. - Kurt Eisenhuth

Malone kept listening, a saying from Sun Tzu's ART OF WAR spinning through his mind. When your enemy is in the process of destroying himself, stay out of the way.

But heroes, at time, had to be fools

Desperate problems mandated desperate measures.

When things go bad, anything can hurt you, including doing nothing.

A warrior takes his sword to the future. A warrior also takes his sword to all circumstances that don't allow him to fully focus.

The lesson Rett taught me was one I've never forgotten. Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

Dr. Martin Seligman in his excellent book, Flourish, calls the practice of instantly finding the benefit in adversity "post-traumatic growth," and he backs it up with rather thrilling and extensive research studies. Our society and media are fixated on post-traumatic stress because of the strong bias toward (and financial interest in) tragedy.

It may not be your fault for being down, but it is your fault for not getting back up

Good times come and go. And bad times do the same.

The Comedy Equation: An ordinary guy or gal struggling against insurmountable odds without many of the required skills and tools with which to win yet never giving up hope.

just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives.

But circumstances make victims of us all at times.