Quotes About Adversity

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say 'I can do this' even when you know you can't.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, There's just something about you that pisses me off.

Life is not shaped by what happens to you but by how you react to what happens to you.

Your horrific time of trouble offered you truths about yourself, windows into your own soul, and maps to the terrain of your inner life. Wise people learn to gather this intelligence to help them conquer themselves and then to live in loftier ways.

Honorable men refuse to wallow in the small and the bitter. Honorable men refuse to hate life because something once went wrong. Honorable men don't build monuments to their disappointments, nor do they let others brand them and curse them to their destruction. Honorable

Your failures don't define you, but they can refine you.

When there's no way out, you just follow the way in front of you.

It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.

This you have to understand. There's only one way to hurt a man who's lost everything. Give him back something broken.

We are not required to defeat evil, but only to stand against it. That is enough - the outcome remains with God.

Do not be afraid, my lady," soothed Durwin. " he is not so terrible that he cannot be faced. Evil always misrepresents itself.

Bajo, quizá. Humillado, quizá. Incluso devastado. Pero no destruido. Y nunca, nunca, acabado.

If you must always defeat two enemies each time you take the field of battle, you will soon be overcome. And of any two enemies, anger is always the stronger.

as is most always the case with any disaster, it is those who can least afford to lose who lose the most.

She [Mérian] shook her head sadly. 'What Bran wants is impossible.' 'Well,' I [Will] said, 'I wouldn't be too sure. I have seen the lone canny fox outwit the hunter often enough to know that it matters little how many horses and men you have. All the wealth and weapons in the world will not catch the fox that refuses to be caught.

When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything.

The true measure of success is how many times you can bounce back from failure.

When your back is to the wall and you are facing fear head on, the only way is forward and through it.

A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life.

When you're scared, you stay as you are!

Failures can be called 'strengtheners' as they make you determined to reach your goal with the lessons they teach.

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

Run and hide or rise and shine ...