Quotes About Adversity

Even in the moments of your greatest anguish, you often find unexpected blessings alongside and commingled with your losses.

to weakness if you're fighting the wrong issue or the wrong person, or for the wrong reason.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Perhaps it is those who are most vulnerable in their hearts who learn to grow the toughest skin.

At the same time, I would add that the American people have a lot of courage.

Crawling is acceptable. Falling is acceptable. Puking is acceptable. Tears are acceptable. Pain is acceptable. Injury is acceptable. Quitting is unacceptable.

When the going gets tough, the tough go shopping!

Sometimes when you think the storm is coming to rain on your parade, it's actually there to water your garden.

If life gives you lemons, a simple operation can give you melons.

I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.

A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.

Having no problems is the biggest problem of all.

Lack of fear is not the mark of courage. It is the mark of idiocy. Courage is knowing fear and overcoming it.

My film directorial career has been nothing but repetition of one failure after another!

Things do not necessarily happen for the best, but I can choose to make the best of things that happen.

The all-or-nothing mind-set leads Perfectionists to transform every setback they encounter into a catastrophe, an assault on their very worth as human beings. Their sense of self inevitably suffers as their faultfinding turns inward.

Such attachment to past failures has been described by Martin Seligman as "learned helplessness.

Talia Carner

I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it.

The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.

She couldn't help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how—even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,