Quotes About Adversity

How did one deal with such ingrained cowardice? Then I realized that there is no such thing as courage in the absence of cowardice. Courage is also a choice: It's what happens when one refuses to give in to fear.

What do you do when you despair, and there isn't an August Rain to drown your sorrow?

Here's to going into the fire." - Kashkari

Into many lives a little irregularity must fall.

How do you find the grace to face the shadows?

Do not undervalue what you are ultimately worth because you are at a momentary disadvantage

Adversity didn't improve everyone—or the world would be filled with men and women of flawless character and sublime insight.

is always easier when it's smooth sailing, but these waves are what keep it interesting.

It seemed doubts popped up like dandelions, unwelcome but hardy.

Life has a way of getting away from you. Seems to me it's always better to get things out there and deal with them.

The virus has robbed them of their youth, and it is about to rob them of the rest of their

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant we ran rather than loitered.

The devil—one might face anything if one but knew what was to be faced! ~117, SA: Sh. Stories, 1962

I've had to deal with all different types of situations - positive and negative and extremes of both.

The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve.

In Japan, usually, once you become prime minister, you do not have a second chance. Probably the reason why that was not the case this time is because Japan is facing an increasingly challenging situation.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first.

You prepare as best you can for the bad times- then live every moment with joy.

Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records

SUCCESS does not mean an absence of problems, it is overcoming problems. Success is not measured by how high we go up in life, but how many times we bounce back when we fall down.

In 1914, Thomas Edison, at age sixty-seven, lost his factory to fire. It had very little insurance. No longer a young man, Edison watched his lifetime effort go up in smoke and said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew." In spite of disaster, three weeks later, he invented the phonograph. What an attitude!

After every setback, ask yourself: What did I learn from this experience? Only then will you be able to turn a stumbling block into a stepping stone.