Quotes About Adversity

She shared the curse of many artists—that praise beaded up and rolled off her while criticism stuck like glue, glue embedded with ground glass.

You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That's an education in itself.

No one ever said life was fair. Just Eventful.

Because nobody goes though life without a scar.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

Yes, I love the church, but not because it has formed a snug cocoon around me, insulating me from the world. Just the opposite is true. It's where I've encountered my fears. It's where my faith has grown larger; pushing me over edges I didn't want to get near. It's forced me to try things that scared me to death...

Reality is, there is almost always something going wrong. Hard times are normal.

Picture your brain forming new connections as you meet the challenge and learn. Keep on going.

For I was indeed a student of human nature, as every orphan and hooker and unwanted kid must be.

I think that sometimes when you get used to a bad thing -- like being in prison or getting kidnapped by fairies -- it's better to live with that bad thing than trying to change it. Because what if you get to chance to change it and you mess up? What if it's your last chance?

Never lose your sense of humor. Tomorrow could be worse.

S)omehow I've survived again. I don't know how to stop. —Ruth

You've lived through all this, Ruth. Do you know how strong that makes you? Ruth, it takes more work to be afraid than to ride the fear, to live with the fear, to accept it.

Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better.

Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this.

If at first you don't fricassee, Fry, fry a hen!

No," said Father. "Just do the best you can and don't let it worry you. In that way you'll have a clear conscience and a tranquil heart.

Pioneer children were always having mishaps, but they were expected to know how to use their heads in emergencies.

NASA thought so. When they were soliciting applications for astronauts, they rejected people with pure histories of success and instead selected people who had had significant failures and bounced back from them.

In the fixed mindset, setbacks label you.

When people believe their basic qualities can be developed, failures may still hurt, but failures don't define them. And if abilities can be expanded—if change and growth are possible—then there are still many paths to success.

Yet it's been clear to me for a long time that different students handle depression in dramatically different ways. Some let everything slide. Others, though feeling wretched, hang on. They drag themselves to class, keep up with their work, and take care of themselves -- so that when they feel better, their lives are intact.

when they see it—it's the ability to dig down and find the strength even

When Jordan was cut from the varsity team, he was devastated. His mother says, "I told him to go back and discipline himself.