Quotes About Adversity

How can a country that is impoverished, humiliated and beaten defend its national interests?

When I started at Boca, as well as when I got to the national team, I felt it was the top of the mountain, but they turned me around and I had to start from scratch.

We must lift ourselves for every challenge we face, no matter who you are playing - and that applies especially to the national team.

I had to move out when I was 14 and live by myself in the capital of Croatia. That's when it got a little serious. From there, I played on the Croatian national team.

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

The people of this state won't back down from a challenge. Not in the fight for civil rights, not in defending our nation's freedoms, not in the aftermath of devastating natural disasters.

I've got used to criticisms and, naturally, I try to make sure I don't listen to the more extreme ones because most of the people who have taken their right-wing extremist view of my life are people that I've never met.

Behind every cloud is another cloud.

Abused and battered wives or children, the unemployed, the depressed, the mentally ill, the illiterate, the lonely, those grieving for lost loved ones, those crushed by poverty, the terminally ill, those fighting with addictions, those suffering from trauma, those trapped in menial and poorly paid jobs, those facing foreclosure or bankruptcy because they cannot pay their medical bills, need only overcome their negativity.

My wife says the good Lord laid out a rough road for all of us, and we just got to take it and keep taking it and it'll get better one of these days. Uh-huh. One of these days ain't coming fast enough.

The Tuckers were a good bunch with bad luck, same as a lot of hill families. You helped when you could, but he hoped he was clear of the Tuckers for good. Trouble came their way like sideways wind in winter.

When a problem or a difficult situation arises, say to yourself, as if you already believe it: This is for my benefit.

The challenges and changes you meet are, in effect, hand delivered to you by a generous, loving Universe for the purpose of making you stronger and wiser.

Once you look at your problems as workout situations, they take on a whole new aspect.

You suffered, not realizing that the events were part of the plan to give you strength, wisdom, and good fortune.

The events that occur in my life are workout situations. They are there for my benefit so I can become strong and gain wisdom and information by working my way through those situations.

Tao also provides you with information and ideas , arranges meetings and opportunities , and pressures you with adversity when you have strayed from the evolutionary path that establishes your destiny on planet Earth.

Life's tempering and altering process often takes the form of adversity, and, as far as outward appearances are concerned, seems to be working against us when it is actually working for us.

You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.

Not for the first time, he wished he commanded a highly trained bunch of soldiers instead of a ragtag mob of rejects in varying stages of alcoholism.

But it is the mark of a leader, to hold all possibilities, even the unpleasant—even the unthinkable.

How have you managed to survive for so long, Saurfang? Not fallen victim to your own memories?" Saurfang smiled. "I don't eat pork.

One of the things you'll learn, Anduin, is that sometimes you can't always do what you'd like to do. Or even do what you think is the right thing—at least not right away.