Quotes About Adversity

I love taking hits away from guys and seeing their reaction.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

The greatest glory never comes from falling, but from rising each time you fall.

I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.

He whom God loveth, He beateth the hell out of.

As a Southerner, I love obstacles for my characters.

Love is the only thing in the world worth having. You must never loose it or give it away. We must never let them take it from us.

Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

Love doesn't always come in convenient packages.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

I don't want to stay in the bad place, where no one believes in silver linings or love or happy endings.

Laugh as often as possible. You must. Because the world will offer you every reason to weep. So as often as possible, you laugh. That, I think, is part of the Great Love.

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

Falling down became second nature and it really didn't bother me.

She's in love, and that makes her strong. She'll need to be." "What makes you strong, Mia?" "Purpose. Love never worked for me.

When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.

You know, that's all basketball is. If someone loves something, and you take it away, it's like what does he do now? What does someone do? That's what happened with me.

The sides are steep and the nights are long and cold down in the hole, light and love and the world above mean nothing to the mole.

Zaveck is a tough guy. He has never been knocked down and I love putting people to sleep. Knowing that he has never been knocked down is a true test for me

Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

Instead of looking at difficulties as deprivations, we can learn to recognize them as opportunities for deepening and widening our love.