Quotes About Adversity

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Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one. —Bruce Lee

Seek out and embrace people who challenge you. You will learn more from them than from the folks who hold you to lower standards.

Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in love.

Maybe innocence is a skin you must shed to build layers more resistant to the caustic truths of the world.

Héctor Tobar

Mindst tænkte jeg da paa, at mit Livs alvorligste eventyr skulde begynde, at en Begivenhed, der engang havde beskæjftiget mig saa levende og stærk, det tabte Frøkorn, glemt og uset, nu vilde vise sig, som en grøn, duftende Væxt, der slyngede sig fast om mit eget Livstræ.

Importuna coisa é a felicidade alheia quando somos vítima de algum infortúnio

Your destiny is also your character. Adversity will test you — and reveal you.

But getting the mind right when things are not going ideally is the key to athletic excellence. Good perspective in the face of adversity qualifies as "mental toughness" — the coin of the realm for elite athletes.

What I look for are players who have not just won all their lives, but who have been through some type of adversity and who have found a way to come through it.

And at last I resolved to scale that tower, fall though I might; since it were better to glimpse the sky and perish, than to live without ever beholding day.

Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate.

Lovecraft also likes to play with the idea of fate. In many of Lovecraft's stories the protagonist is not in control of his own actions but must follow the path of fate. Many of his characters would be free from danger if they were simply able to run away but this is not possible as the course of their fate must be followed.

One with God is always a majority. But many have been burned at the stake while the boats were being counted. Thomas Reed

In the immediate aftermath of the great Chicago fire, a business proprietor erected a shack in front of his burned-out business. On a sign, he placed his name and the tagline that everything was gone but wife, children, and energy.

People who live in poor countries have to be entrepreneurial even just to survive.

Many people have serious academic degrees but cannot find a job, and sadly their degrees are so limited that they cannot even think about how to create a job for themselves.

Steve Langley, a forecast manager from Beloit, Wisconsin, recalls running 15 miles with friends on a January morning when the temperature was 5°F. Running through a park with a small lake, they passed several people sitting on buckets, ice fishing. "Look at those idiots," said one of the fishermen. "They're going to freeze to death!" Langley admits thinking the same about them.

His being had rested full of adoration for the glory which unifies all distances in such beauty and sorrow that one no longer wishes for anything–in unconquerable adversity, in unquenchable longing he felt that life had nevertheless been worth while living.

My opinion has always been this," he said, "that you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breathe your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan.

My opinion has always been this. That you ought never to give up as long as you live, even though they have stolen everything from you. If nothing else, you can always call the air you breath your own, or at any rate you can claim that you have it on loan. Yes, lass, last night I ate stolen bread and left my son among men who are going to use pick-handles on the authorities, so I thought I might as well look you up this morning.

Is it not amazing that around a man as cold as I am, there should always be fire? Sometimes it tries to burn me, but I usually collect my things and leave.

Það sem þrek hennar hafði grætt, það hafði viðkvæmnin mist.