Quotes About Adversity

I've known a lot of alleged failures in my time and many of them, in losing what the world has always considered success, have achieved in facing up to failure, more than they ever achieved when they were considered successful.

A joy in living, a natural expression of the will to survive all personal disaster, can be constant despite whatever changes take place. Some fortunate people are born with it and others acquire it through learning and growth.

Sometimes when the poop hits the fan we should block it and run, sometimes we should haul off and knock it for a loop back at the spinning blades. Wisdom is knowing two things. One is which time is which. The other is that no matter what you do you're gonna get crap on your hand.

Leo stood behind him, his suit coat and tie off, rolling up his sleeves. "Oh, crap," I said, my voice full of gravel and bigger rocks, grinding over one another. I cleared my throat and tried again. "I'm too old for a spanking and not quite up to defending myself from a butt whupping. Can we do this another time?

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station-house gossip, had seen it all and done it all, and took flack

If you live long enough, WPC Loveday, I'm afraid you'll discover for yourself that you really can't win them all. At some point, life's going to slap you down hard. You just have to learn to take it, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and get on with things.

Ginger Rodgers did everything Fred Astair did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

message to falcon lovers : its ok to love people who wont love you back, my best friend got rejected by this girl, you see that's life. all my life I have tried to advertise my channel on pewds's videos but you I just get rejected, and again that's life. but I keep on going and I dont care what people say, even if its I hate falcons, there just haters. keep fighting falcon lovers and love will come back

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.

being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

You are made a slave in a moment by the world, if you don't begin life by defying it.

It didn't matter which side you were on. It was an empty, cavernous world in which young boys groped around in the dark, dreading the next step, which might be on a landmine or into a booby trap. It was a world of death. No one came out of it unscathed. It was a world with only one law: kill or be killed. [204]

Everything has positive and negative consequences.

When he was just 23, Houston took a four-hour bus ride from Boston to New York, planning to use the time to work on a project. But he was stymied, because he forgot to bring the thumb-size hard drive that held his files. Deciding he'd been inconvenienced by this sort of thing for the last time, he wrote the very first lines of Dropbox code during the ride.

Some women are born mothers, some women become mothers, and some have motherhood thrust upon them. I struggled against it all my life, but I think the truth is I was probably born to it. I don't do badly, I don't do well, I just do it.

A brave little woman,' said the vicar. 'So many of our women are now left alone.' And so they were. Those who in peacetime were expected to need male protection, in wartime were assumed to be able to manage perfectly well. And so they did.

A band of exiles moored their barkOn a wild New England shore.

Success breeds success, and failure leads to a sort of fallow period.

My center is giving way, my right is pushed back, situation excellent, I am attacking.

When you are living under the wolves, you have to howl.' ....'I will never howl with these wolves.

Does anger empower me in a powerless situation? If so, can I find another source of strength?

porque como o escuro era grande, o tempo muito frio, o mar muito grosso, o vento muito rijo, as aguas cruzadas, o escarcéo muito alto, e a força da tempestade muito terrivel, não havia cousa que bastasse a nos dar remedio, senão só a misericordia de Nosso Senhor,

homens que por indústria e engenho voam por cima das águas todas, por adquirirem o que Deus lhes nao deu, ou a pobreza neles é tanta que todo lhes faz esquecer a sua pátria, ou a vaidade, e a cegueira que lhes causa a sua cobiça é tamanha que por ela renegam a Deus, e a seus pais.