Quotes About Adversity

You find a glimmer of happiness in this world, there's always someone who wants to destroy it.

The best advice I was given if that if you want to succeed and you want to achieve, you have to learn how to handle failures.

Either you are a victim or you victimize someone and in the hood it's no holds barred. The kid in the schoolyard that doesn't want to fight always leaves with a black eye.

All problems are not results of sin; many are simply results of reality.

When it seemed that Lincoln might throw the champion, the entire Clary Grove clan jumped him and drove the tall clerk back against the bluff. But Lincoln, blazing with defiance, offered to take them all on—one at a time. Impressed with his pluck, Armstrong shook Lincoln's hand, turned to the spectators, and pronounced the fight a draw.

tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable.

Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.

Two damaged people, thrown together in a hostile world, doing their best. What else was there to life, in the end?

Wow. Pioneers with ice-cream." Joshua felt motivated to defend his home. "Well, it doesn't have to be like the Donner Party, Sally-

Let me face bare-handed a dozen highly trained and fully armed gladiators, each with a personal grudge against me, than a lawyer with a single pointed question.

Every adversity has value if one searches for it.

Eagle had indeed revealed what Churchill, no less, was to characterise as the essence of war: 'a catalogue of mistakes and misfortunes'6.

Remove the rock from your shoe rather than learn to limp comfortably.

Don't let the assholes grind you down.

All of the Eastern contemplative traditions stumbled onto this brilliant principle: When difficulties arise, give yourself to them.

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.

The girl, Maggie, blossomed in a mud puddle.

Read on, it gets worse.

[N]egative experiences... and separation from our second side cause most of us to reach adulthood as second-hand people.

But at some point you have to just decide that if a bear's going to eat you, a bear's going to eat you, and then you go about your day.

A long time ago Darren had said that bears and wolves weren't meant to get along. I thought he'd been talking about state troopers, though. This

This is the part in the movie where Jade's supposed to rally, she knows. She's not supposed to mope, she's supposed to be gearing up, pouring black powder into lightbulbs, hammering nails into the business end of a bat, that kind of stuff.

When the whole world hurts, you bite it, don't you?

Indians, we don't have guardian angels—if we did, they'd have been whispering to us pretty hard when some certain ships bobbed up on the horizon—but we do have helpers. I think usually it's supposed to be an animal.