Quotes About Adversity

circumstances. We feel reduced, less capable, and lost in the face of struggle.

If you fall out of the boat put your feet up, lie back and relax. Your life jacket knows which way is up. Let the river hold you. You won't drown." -Zambezi River Guide.

the measure of our greatness is in how we stand up after we fall".

I'm inspired by your courage, to say nothing of your wisdom and your beauty as a human being. Sometimes places like this destroy those things, but even though you've lost so much, here you are, whole, standing on your own. From tomorrow, you can choose.

I didn't plan to get pregnant with his child, but it happened. All I can do is take this opportunity and run with it.

no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!

No quería tener ninguna debilidad. En aquel lugar sólo sobrevivían los fuertes.

Courage is as contagious as fear.

I hate it not so much on my own account, for I have learned at last not to let it balk me. But I hate it because of the potentially shining, gentle, gifted people of all ages, that it snuffs out every year. It is a murderer of talent.

I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

I sat beside Charlie. Opposite us, in the Black Maria, was a red-haired boy of my own age, and a small man with a broken nose, a cauliflower ear, and a begrudging look. He was going up for kicking his wife. He was not unfriendly, and told me his name was Donohoe. I said that by a coincidence that was my mother's name. It was not her name, but civility costs nothing.

When I was in my 30s, I was at the end of a long-term relationship and going through a very hard time. I'd had about 15 different addresses and a series of relationships. I thought, 'It's time to have a look at yourself.'

There will be times when standing alone feels too hard, too scary, and we'll doubt our ability to make our way through the uncertainty.

Winston Churchill said it well: "Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

he progressed not by always making right decisions but by responding appropriately to wrong ones.

We don't have to pretend that the sun is shining when it isn't, but we must never give up hope that it will shine again.

Really, once the worst happens, it's always happening. It's never not happening.

There's no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I've started drinking my own urine.

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

I've had some mighty mean moments afore I kem to this spot,-- Lost on the plains in '50, drowned almost, and shot; But out on this alkali desert, a hunting a crazy wife, Was ra'ly as on-satis-factory as anything in my life.

The luck gives in first. Luck," continued the gambler reflectively, "is a mighty queer thing. All you know about it for certain is that it's bound to change. And it's finding out when it's going to change that makes you. We've had a streak of bad luck since we left Poker Flat,-you come along, and slap you get into it, too. If you can hold your cards right along you're all right.

So I had him go to work, because it occurred to me that even when your wife leaves you, you still have to show up for work.

Hardship and danger destroys fewer people than indulgence.