Quotes About Adversity

Ida B. Miller

The list of side effects was lengthy and horrible. Sonnet had pored over it, along with all the other literature she'd hastily devoured, searching for grains of hope. The worst part of chemo started after the drugs were administered.

Listen, you're not a criminal. Or a victim. You're a survivor. Love yourself, honey. Love that girl who lost her mama too young and picked the wrong guy and had to fight for herself. Love that girl---because I do.

When something is hard, but you do it anyway and get stronger because you did it, that's building character.

Paste on your brightest smile and pretend that everything was just fine, and sooner or later, it would be. Or near enough.

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

Several times Waves passed over our heads, but they fell back the next instant. We were drenched, we were numbed, we were blinded, we were deafened; but always we were saved.

There is a thing that I know but always forget: Winter is hard.

This is the genius of my enemy! Lock a door against him and all that happens is that he learns first how to pick a lock and second how to build a better one against you!

Mr Norrell assured Mr Strange that he would find war very disagreeable. "One is often wet and cold upon a battlefield. You will like it a great deal less than you suppose.

that would be a welcome

Life… has a way of testing the fault line

I believe now that I was exposed too early to goodness and that I never recovered.

People Should not be protected from the world.. -It cripples them.

He longed for a heart like the one his friend was getting, an unstoppable pump that would not falter. Danny might appear to be in trouble, but he never really is, he has this secret strength. Now, though he's lost fifty thousand dollars in a golf-course scheme and his ex-wife is suing him and he lives without furniture, these are minor details. The man is complete. Self-destructive to some extent, but whole enough to take it.

It would do her good to have some demons to fight, to be swung out in space and held over some bottomless pit now and then.

Defeat never comes to any man until he admits it.

It is the little things that fret and worry us; you can dodge an elephant, but not a fly.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly

It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

Poverty iz the stepmother ov genius.