Quotes About Adversity

What doesn't kill men makes them stronger. What doesn't kill women makes men breakfast.

Heaven's no place for one who thrives on hell.

So it's not what you're given, it's how you take it.

when you are a survivor, in order to be a really good one, you have to keep getting in trouble to show off your gift.

I decided to ride the lightning instead of extinguishing the light of life that had once shown out of my eyes.

But, the thing is that when you are a survivor, which fine, I reluctantly agree that I am—and who over 40 isn't?—when you are a survivor, in order to be a really good one, you have to keep getting in trouble to show off your gift.

For Billie and Barack, who make my world a better place. Despite the obstacles you've had to overcome--whether posed by my antics or the uber-unfortunate antics of the Tea Partiers and the rest of their distressing ilk--long may you wave.

If what doesn't kill you makes you—well, what doesn't kill you makes you not dead but if what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, then I should be able to lift Cedars-Sinai Hospital and glow in the dark. So I say to myself at this point—BRING IT ON!!!

And her sponsor said, "God never gives us any more than we can handle, so if He gives you a lot to handle, take it as a compliment. It's because He believes that you can handle a lot." It was such a powerful thought, I wanted to brand it into my brain.

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

We all live with our losses. We don't want to, but we can

you have to face your fear.

Fear makes us stronger, puts us on our toes. We've got to embrace it.

You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.

Fear makes us stronger, puts us on our toes. We've got to embrace it." Issie

Friedrich Nietzsche says, "He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby become a monster.

You have a choice to make, Alex. You can either let your losses destroy you, or you can take hold of courage and, with God's help, forge a new furture... It's up to you.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

If you hanker after accomplishment, you will aspect raw eggs and faultfinders.

All right. I'll bite. Here's what I think, with the caveat that I may be wrong. I think we're here to make the world a better place than we found it. I think we don't always deserve the cards we're dealt, good or bad. But we are judged by how we play the cards we're dealt. Those of us with a bum deal that makes it harder to do good -- we just have to work a little more is all. There's no destiny. There's just muddling through without doing to much damage.

cope or go crazy

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

We swore that we'd die with our boots on. But then, that's what you do when you drown.

But that's how it is on a sailing ship, and in this respect its journey parallels that of life: simply knowing where you want to go isn't enough, because life is a windblown voyage, consisting mainly of the detours imposed by alternating calm and storm.