Quotes About Adversity

Los pesimistas ven dificultades en cada oportunidad; los optimistas ven oportunidades en cada dificultad".

Basketball Rule #10 A loss is inevitable, like snow in winter. True champions learn to dance through the storm.

Own the sadness, don't let it own you.

In this life, rain's gonna fall, but the sun will shine again,

Life is a mountain, Youngblood. Nobody said the climb was gonna be easy. You gotta choose your route. Get your gear. Breathe. Clear your mind. And enjoy the journey

Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.

A loss is inevitable, like snow in winter. True champions learn to dance through the storm.

You can get used to things going well, but you're never prepared for something going wrong.

it's just one miss, but you're gonna have a whole lotta makes in this life, 'cause you're just that good, and it's okay to be down and upset as long as you're not down and out.

Out of the Dust is a story about a lanky piano-playing girl named Billie Jo whose mother is gone, whose father's heart and soul are disappearing into the dust that blankets their Oklahoma town, and even though the first 59 pages rain down hard on you, when you get to page 60 the monsoon comes and the book is unputdownable.

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from Elise Egan.

none of us get through life unscathed…We all have to find a way to live with pain without letting it define us.

When the fire in your life is the hottest, stand still, for "later on . . . it produces a harvest" (Heb. 12:11) of blessings.

We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed" (2 Cor.

You have plenty of courage, I am sure," answered Oz. "All you need is confidence in yourself. There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.

True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid...

Just as one swallow doesn't make a spring, one slip doesn't make a fall.

Come on now, laddie," Dunneldeen said. "Just hold on and they'll pull you up to the plane. 'Tis a wee bit cold for a swim.

Sometimes others seek to crush one down, to make nothing out of one's hopes and dreams, one's future and oneself.

You told him, it's not the fall that defines you, but the shots you make once you get up.

Every scar, every mark on my body is a reminder that I survived. Just living through it made me who I am." I

A girl that's born for hangin' ain't likely to be drowned.

men i swear." -jacky faber