Quotes About Adversity

Peter Who am I You sure you want to know The story of my life is not for the faint of heart. If somebody said it was a happy little tale... if somebody told you I was just your average ordinary guy, not a care in the world... somebody lied.

You know, Susey," he said, "they ruined a hell of a man when they cut the balls off you!" O'Malley never was one to tiptoe around a thing.

You can't hit my team in the groin and expect me to smile about it.

Ourselves within us lethal forces nurse; We make of our own enemies our guests.

By your stumbling, the world is perfected.

The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's sunny Meditations

The stormy life can be braved only by the heart's sunny meditations.

When you are confronted with terrible hardships, and no one offers you any support, when your friends turn into enemies, and even your relatives have deserted you, and when all support has given way, and all hope has been lost - if you then come to remember the Supreme Lord God, even the hot wind shall not touch you.

You must be a Lotus, unfolding its petals when the Sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it.

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Only when life is difficult, are we challenged to become our greatest selves.

There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served both by those events which we call adverse and those called prosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the good things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked man, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels himself punished by its unhappiness.

Even Fortune herself has had an adverse fortune.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

Lakše je ukoriti duh nego razoriti tijelo.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them

The next time you're faced with something that's unexpected, unwanted and uncertain, consider that it just may be a gift.

It's uniquely tough, but also uniquely fabulous.

you can do against Milton.

For men must never feel a cause is hopeless-- men must never feel an enemy cannot be beaten!

When you're up there hundreds of people will claim you as a friend. When you're down, you're lucky if one will buy you a cup of coffee.

Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for.

Uncomplicated birth seems to be the blueprint for coping with all later difficult situations in life. Various complications, such as prolonged and debilitating delivery, the use of forceps, or heavy anesthesia appear to be correlated to specific problems in dealing with future projects of all kinds. The same is true for induced birth, premature delivery, and Caesarean section.