Quotes About Adversity

Like Dad Nelson said, "The time will come that you will need faith, either for yourself, or for some member of your family. And if you haven't kept your faith strong, you'll be at a disadvantage.

You see, you can't always go by what it looks like. There always comes a test to your faith. The trial of your faith, the Bible said, is more precious than gold.

Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.

The windchill factor above Camp IV could only be found on a chart for Mars.

Bader's philosophy was my philosophy. His whole attitude to life was mine.

If she can bite a vulture, she can jump a crack. ~Victor Frankenstein

O take heart, my brothers. Even now... with every leader & every resource & every strategy of every nation on Earth arrayed against Her - Even now, O even now, my brothers, Life is in no danger of losing the argument! - For after all .... (as will be shown) She has only to change the subject.

Sometimes we learn the lessons we most desperately need in the form of illness." - Larry Dossey

You've been marked and labeled in the spiritual world just by virtue of your birth. If you claim the family name of Christian, you are being hunted to be destroyed.

You're going to die some day without ever having had enough trouble in your life. Not of the right kind anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you have anyway.

Lon not only lost his horse; he was struck in the breast by a bullet, but his dispatch book and pistol, which were tucked in his breast pocket, took the full impact of the projectile. "It only knocked the breath out of my body," he remembered.

Rarely has a new commander been presented with such daunting and complex issues on his first day in command as was George Meade. He dealt with his limitations and deprivations with a steady head and evident equanimity.

The best laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.

I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you. You don't need to go out of your way to sabotage yourself or get a friggin' drug habit or date a psycho.

Every man knows his own but not others? defects and miseries; and ?tis the nature of all men still to reflect upon themselves their own misfortunes, not to examine or consider other men?s, not to confer themselves with others; to recount their own miseries but not their good gifts, fortunes, benefits which they have, to ruminate on their adversity, but not once to think on their prosperity, not what they have but what they want.

The anchor in our world today is freedom, holding us steady in times of change.

Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don't run away when things are tough. It means you don't turn away from a friend when he or she is in trouble. It means standing up against the majority opinion.... There's a lot of people who won't wear it on their sleeve, or display it through some heroic act. But courage is having the strength to do what's honorable and decent.

The nature of the presidency is that sometimes you don't choose which challenges come to your desk. You do decide how to respond.

Out on Ocean Avenue in Flatbus, where I was a poor Black girl, living in someone else's apartment in an all-white neighborhood, where my family was seen as "the help". And at eight in the morning, on that street with all of its white faces staring down at me or not seeing me at all, I walked with my head high and made it to the bus stop without flinching. It was my armor, too.

You have two things against you: you're black and you're a woman. Nothing is going to be easy.

He that is down can fall no lower.

It's just a life, dear. We all have lives. Some spill them in the trenches others in a cage.

Unfortunately, pioneers will always pave the way with sacrifices.