Quotes About Adversity

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well. —Josh Billings

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." -Eleanor Roosevelt

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. —Abraham Lincoln

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some. —Charles Dickens

This ain't your fight,' he said to the distant creature. 'Fucking dragon.

Some roads, once set out upon, reveal no possible path but forward. Every other track is blocked by snarls of thorns, steaming fissures or rearing walls of stone. What waits at the far end of the forward path is unknown, and since knowledge itself may prove a curse, the best course is simply to place one foot in front of the other, and think not at all of fate or the cruel currents of destiny.

the failure of hope has a name: it is called suffering.

They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived with, so that it might be justified.

Soldiers are issued armour for their flesh and bones, but they must fashion their own for their souls. Piece by piece.

You cannot be remade unless you are first broken.

Life is like a clam," Birds Mottle's father once told her. "Years filtering shit then some bastard cracks you open and scrapes you into its damned mouth.

Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

In America, you've got a lot of fair-weather fans, who be cheering for you hard and as soon as you lose a fight, you're a bum and then they come at you on social media and they give you a lot of slack.

When crazy comes knocking at the door, you gotta slam it shut.

My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

I had doors slammed in my face; I had a lot of news directors who wouldn't give me the time of day. Some told me I wouldn't have a future in the business.

My father died in 1957, just before I was born. My mother went to her Jewish aunt, who slammed the door in her face.

Sometimes you have got to look at things really positively - without putting your head in the sand, you have got to manage the negatives and keep putting a positive slant on it, keep trying to find answers.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

Cancer is a cosmic slap in the face. You either get discouraged or ennobled by it.