Quotes About Adversity

Tell me about a failure in your life and tell me why it occurred." Does the applicant say he cannot think of one? If he can describe something he perceives as a failure, does he take responsibility for it or does he blame others (e.g., "I never graduated high school because those damned teachers didn't know how to motivate me")?

Frank Sulloway, author of Born to Rebel, says that "Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children

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

The human spirit is a mysterious thing: traumas that flatten some people bounce off of others.

Close your eyes and you will see your dreams, open them and you will see obstacles.

It's new territory, and I'm learning to live in it. To do that, I need to overcome thousands of years of programming that adversity is a constant requirement of existence. We need to savor our success, first for seconds at a time, then for minutes that grow into months.

adversity is a constant requirement of existence.

THERE WERE few worse places on earth to build a town, but Nome had gone up almost overnight after two Swedes and a Norwegian found a nugget the size of a small rock in a creek near the beach.

Don't be scared...Women can handle the worst kind of pain. You'll find out one day.

It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself. But if you keep waiting for the doors to be opened for you... I think you'll have a hard time finding single happiness, let alone that double portion.

And I bet she'll be a stronger person because of what she's lost today. I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.

You had a pile of rocks, and you cleaned them up pretty and made a necklace. Meg got jewels, and she hung herself with them.

Sometimes fate or life or whatever you want to call it, leaves a door a little open and you walk through it. But sometimes it locks the door and you have to find the key, or pick the lock, or knock the damn thing down. And sometimes, it doesn't even show you the door, and you have to build it yourself.

Neither sleet nor rain nor a half inch of snow will compel me to dress like a lumberjack.

But if that's what happens to normal, what hope is there for the rest of us?" I ask him.

You win some, you lose some. And sometimes you win and lose at the same time. Life's a bloody cockup.

no way through it but through it," I tell myself.

Women can handle the worst kind of pain.

Y apuesto a que se convertirá en una persona más fuerte gracias a la pérdida de hoy. Tengo la sensación de que después de pasar por algo así, uno se vuelve más o menos invencible.

Everyone has hardship in their life. Everyone has pain.

We were all forged in the crucible.

When a broken bone heals, it's stronger than it was before the break. Same holds true for broken hearts.

Scars are just tattoos with better stories." Again,