Quotes About Adversity

If you allow things like this to ruin your day, pretty soon you'll wake up and your life will be nothing but an endless string of ruined days that stretch as far back as you can remember." She turned toward the window, her profile soft and blurred in the afternoon light. "Believe me, if you let disappointments take you too far, you'll end up getting lost. You'll never find your way out of it.

I know you're scared, but you gotta grab hold of yourself. Every time you give in to your fears, you're lettin' that man win. and every time you do that, he gets stronger while you get weaker. Givin' in to your fears will rob you blind. You'll end up a prisoner to that man for the rest of your life.

Sometimes when we're holding pain and it gets to be too heavy or goes too deep, we have to give in to it, let it knock us over and pull us all the way down. Once we hit bottom, we rest in a quiet place for a while. Then, when the pain eases and we're ready to face the world again, we come right back up.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives

Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

Satan never wastes a fiery dart on an area covered in armor.

only you can decide how your fires will affect you. Will you be sanctified or scarred

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you've got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you

Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.

I've learned life is a lot like surfing. When you get caught in the impact zone,you need to get right back up, because you never know what's over the next wave... and if you have faith, anything is possible, anything at all.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back.

Look, lots of bad stuff happens to people. That's life. And here's my advice: don't put all your hope and faith into something that could suddenly and easily disappear. And honestly, that's almost anything. The only thing that will never go away, that will never fail you, is your faith in God.

I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party!

Their fathers had been slaughtered over the stretch of a half-century by the Persians, their mothers raped. And still they had not caved in.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Old age is no place for sissies!

The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down. If I had to, I'd measure my progress in inches. One more inch I've swum—one less inch to swim. Once you know the secret, then nobody's river can bring you down.

The secret is in absolutely refusing to let the river beat you down.

All of life is a contest. The weak against the strong - the stupid against the clever - the honest against the dishonest.

Betty MacDonald

Life is what happens to you when you're making other plans.

Drown, your heart stops. Take a bullet to the brain, your heart stops. Get the holy living hell beat out of you while you sit duct-taped to your wheelchair, your heart stops.