Quotes About Adversity

An old man I met in the slave camp told me once, always be positive. He died of gangrene, something it's hard to be positive about, and he spent his last week on earth whimpering, but I've always tried to follow his advice, even so.

My life has been so universally shitty that either I lose it or improve it, I'm not really bothered which, just so long as it doesn't carry on the way it's been so far.

It's like—all right, supposing there's a fire. What do you do? You grab everyone and everything you can and you get the hell out of there. You don't agonise about letting the fire win. Staying alive doesn't make you the fire's accomplice.

Ah well. He'd beaten her twice sind then: once on their honeymoon, though he still suspected her of throwing the game, and once on the day she lost the baby. And two out of eight hundred and six wasn't too bad, against such an opponent.

like a cartwheel over a hedgehog,

For ten days, all I'd had to wash in was the piss-pot, and the nearest water was the pump, five flights of narrow, winding steps down, and loneliness had been the least of my problems, if you count tiny things that bite as company. I'm not the most fastidious of men, but I don't like it when I turn into the sort of creature I'd cross the street to avoid.

What the books don't tell you is, there's a sixteenth way. You can use it when you've got nothing; no stuff, no men and nobody to lead them.

Misfortune finds the weak spot.

A good man never lets grief get the upper hand. The mountains are calm even in a tempest.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

He who has not looked on Sorrow will never see Joy.

You shall be free indeed when your days are not without a care nor your nights without a want and a grief, But rather when these things girdle your life and yet you rise above them naked and unbound.

That summer of 1928, Robert was also reading the 1922 novel The Enormous Room, an account by e. e. cummings of his four-month incarceration in a French wartime prison camp. He loved cummings' notion that a man stripped of all his possessions can nevertheless find personal freedom in the most spartan of surroundings. The story would take on a new meaning for him after 1954.

Wartime compelled some mild-mannered men to contemplate what was once unthinkable

Well, when it gets to that point, I want to be there. When what gets to what point? When you're not looking at everyone else as if they'd just declared war on you. And when you realise that things may look like the end of the world but the world still goes on, over there on the other side.

wenn es soweit ist will ich dabei sein... wenn du allen anderen nicht mehr in die Augen schaust, als hätten sie dir gerade den Krieg erklärt und wenn du merkst... dass manches zwar aussieht wie das Ende der Welt, sie in Wahrheit aber weiter geht, drüben auf der anderen Seite.

Bravery is going forth despite the fear. - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow

Challenges in life, keeps us in the game." - STRONG: Powerful Philosophy for Timeless Thoughts by Kailin Gow.

Leadership without adversity is like being in combat without training. The greatest leaders who changed the world came from the most adverse and challenging backgrounds. If they can overcome adversity in their own lives to rise and become a leader, they can use their experience and the wisdom gained from it to overcome challenges that will face a nation. - Strong by Kailin Gow on Leadership

The most successful people in history were made fun of, called "crazy", hated on, and ridiculed...because people didn't want to think a normal person like them could be successful. Thank God they didn't listen to the haters, because how else would the Founding Fathers of America establish America? - Kailin Gow, The American Adventure TV Series

I fell down the rabbit hole, and the more I try to scramble for the sides, the faster I fall.", FADE by Kailin Gow

The world doesn't stop, even when you've just saved it.", FADE by Kailin Gow

Oh dear," Lionel says from the front, hefting his rifle, "it seems that we've kicked a hornet's nest here. Do those look like elite troops to anyone else?", FADE by Kailin Gow

Violetta: Didn't you even run any tests? Tarvek: With what?! I came in here in a bedsheet!