Quotes About Adversity

The road you travel might horribly get narrower; do not panic! Keep your spirits high; the road will get wider!

You think this is a walk in the park, that it's all beauty pageants and tea parties? Come on girl, wake up! This is survival at its most intense.

I want our people to be like a molave tree, strong and resilient, standing on the hillsides, unafraid of the rising tide, lighting and the storm, confident of its strength.

There is one thing sure about life: Life will push us hardly many times! When you are pushed, don't be surprised; stay firm like a plane tree or be elastic like a bamboo!

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

The writer's job is to get the main character up a tree, and then once they are up there, throw rocks at them.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon.

The stronger the winds, the deeper the roots, and the longer the winds, the more beautiful the tree.

Look upon yourself as a tree planted beside the water, which bears its fruit in due season; the more it is shaken by the wind, the deeper it strikes its roots into the ground.

For a tree to become tall it must grow tough roots among the rocks.

You must grow like a tree, not like a mushroom

When a storm comes, it is the trees that get uprooted. Be as humble as the grass and nothing can touch you.

Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.

The forest fire burns even tree like sandalwood.

The strength of a tree, the old ones say, comes not from growing thicker in the good years when there is water, but from staying alive in the bad, dry times.

From the fallen tree everybody makes firewood.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

Wherever the bird with no feet flew, she found trees with no limbs.

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

A diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor a person perfected without trials. Someone is enjoying shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are.

When I was a child, kids used to make fun of me because I was blind. But I just became more curious, 'How can I climb this tree and get an apple for this girl?' That's what mattered to me.

When I was young they used to say people only threw stones at the tree that was loaded with fruit.