Quotes About Adversity

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.

Dark Bakura: The odds are a bit against you. But that doesn't mean you've lost yet...

Dark Bakura [to YÅ«gi]: The odds are a bit against you. But that doesn't mean you've lost yet...

It's only human to want to escape painful or difficult situations. But in most cases people find that they cannot escape reality. Life is about making continuous efforts to move forward with a positive attitude while enduring whatever misfortune or mishap that might occur. This is how I was able to realize my dreams in my own life." ??Kazuo Inamori

Positive reinforcement to counter negative experience, because ultimately, nobody wants to face the bad things alone.

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it was difficult when times were hard to pretend to be happy, doing the reverse was relatively simple.

The greatest glory is being knocked to your knees and then rising again. Lombardi repeated this phrase often, until it rang in the head of every single Packer, like a ubiquitous radio jingle.

What he tried to explain to his players was that being humbled—having some sort of setback—was inevitable in life, but that the real measure of a man was how he reacted to being knocked down. Would he wallow on the ground feeling sorry for himself? Accepting his ultimate defeat? Or would he climb off the turf and go back to work, infused with a renewed determination to transcend the setback?

Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best." —Spanish

the bumping hurts more than the cutting. The cutting doesn't prevent you from walking.

My 'failure' was a survival tactic, and without it I would probably never have worked my way out of the trap that my education had set for me. I would have ended up with a lot more of my consciousness blocked off from me than now.

When the job blows up in your face, remember Rum Jungle. We'll need every man - and then it won't be enough. = Retief in Retief

I've been stuck up shit creek without a means of propulsion too, you'll need to dig deep and be willing to get your hands dirty.

You had three books, now you have four. This is how libraries are built, book by book, until they are burned again. Other books will arrive from across the sea for this is not the first burning. The library has burned before, it will burn again and be rebuilt. Book by book

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

Marvin, you're here now," Vale said. He stood up, his knees popping. "The food sucks. They have severed animal heads in the bar. I don't know if you know that." His cigarette sparked against the gravel and he ratcheted open my walker in front of me. "But you're among friends, okay, and you're still walking upright and taking solids. You're winning. Anything beyond that is thinking too far ahead

This year in sowing too early I lost (the Lord being the cause thereof, but that the instrument wherewith it pleased him to work)… the sum of £10 at least, so exceeding full was my barley with charlock, in all likelihood by means of that instrumental cause, the Lord my God… being without doubt the efficient cause thereof.12

For this is man's nature, that where he is persuaded that there is the power to bring prosperity and adversity, there will he worship. George Gifford, A Discourse of the Subtill Practices of Devilles by Witches and Sorcerers (1587), sigs.B4v-C1

The indomitable Cox may have been the only member of the crew to remain calm—"it being a certain truth that those who are born to be hang'd shall never be drown'd," as he explained.

I'm sick of chasing shadows. But that's where the bad guys are.

Life goes on, and deadlines arrive, even when it seems the world should stop out of respect for a shattered self-esteem.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger!