Quotes About Adversity

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out," she says, "heroes arise in the most unexpected places.

For many traversing a similar road, stumbling along life's brink, a crisis often serves to wake them up, pull them back to safety, save them from themselves. For others, like Kuppuswami, faltering on the rocky crags, tragedy steps in like wind to nudge them off the edge of the cliff.

When I meet large women who walk with confidence and are articulate and really have an understanding of how they walk in this world, I love them so deeply for being able to overcome such unbelievable odds.

The key to life is your attitude. Whether you're single or married or have kids or don't have kids, it's how you look at your life, what you make of it. It's about making the best of your life wherever you are in life.

I live in fear that the deep waters through which I've passed will overwhelm me. —Mary Lincoln

War had turned out to be far more

Of course I deprecate war," he wrote, "but if it is brought to my door the bringer will find me at home.

Roosevelt, still wearing his heavy, hobnailed boots, watched as the snake's short fangs plunged into the tough leather and spilled its venom down the side of his boot. He had been spared an agonizing, certain death by a quarter-inch of leather.

Candice Millard

She (the First Lady, entering the room with her gravely wounded husband) would admit fear but not despair.

sometimes you see problems instead of opportunities!

She was beginning to realize people could survive most things. Not because thy were brave or strong, but because there wasn't any choice.

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invisible host against difficulty. Helen Keller

The character doesn't even come out until people are tested and be put in extreme situations and most people spend their lives trying to avoid those kinds of situations.

I didn't want to accept failure. Even though sometimes the strength it takes to admit failure is probably worth as much as the determination not to quit. So there you have, I was stuck fighting for a relationship with a boyfriend who, in truth be told, I'd rather forget ever existed.

War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.

At twenty-five, Marion had already developed the philosophy to "take failure with my chin up and success, when it comes, in stride.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the currents of life, is without trouble.

Nobody, as long as he moves among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

Find out what a person fears most and that is where he will develop next.

Our biggest problems cannot be resolved. They must be outgrown.

I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life." —Maya Angelou