Quotes About Adversity

Hers was a toughness born from bitterness and tragedy, where every ounce of optimism or humour had been beaten out of her by experience.

The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.

The truth was, sooner or later life broke everyone. We were all broken pieces. The trick was to gather up our remaining fragments and move forward. "Life

Peter and I now refer to this concept as "God's GPS system," and when someone lets us down, we wait with anticipation to see how God is going to readjust our course. It can be a lot of fun to see what amazing journey he will send you on!

I've enough problems to deal with at present. As hard-hearted as it may seem, I don't need ye adding to them.

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturally you could do a great deal to get rid of them but you can't. You can only see one thing clearly and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that and cling to it through thick and thin.

You must navigate by means of your own natural compass." "And if my compass is broken?" "Then you must learn to compensate. Sail a little crooked, make adjustments, but you must set your own course, or the journey is meaningless." (page 357)

I believe it's a privilege, madam. One that's earned through a certain amount of courage and adversity.

Very few of us relate to what it's like to be a hero. But everyone understands what it's like to fail.

They never got over it. They had to harden their hearts so they wouldn't keep breaking.

It's a miracle, really, that any of the royal children went on to become King. But maybe there's no version of childhood that could adequately prepare you for that particular future.

In early 2011, 1.5 million households with roughly 3 million children were surviving on cash incomes of no more than $2 per person, per day in any given month.

Kathryn Hughes

Keep on going, and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I never heard of anyone ever stumbling on something sitting down. —Charles F. Kettering businessman

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit. —Meridel Le Sueur writer and activist

Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. —James Russell Lowell Poet, Editor, and Diplomat

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. —Isaac Asimov Writer

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties. —J. C. Penney businessman

stopped struggling. He sagged against

preferring to live in the dusty ashes of what he'd once been than to risk the flames

Mona Mincheon

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.

She had been shot once, point-blank in the chest, from five, maybe six feet away.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. - Alexander Graham Bell