Quotes About Adversity

I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed! Gen.

Considering the unforeseen events of this world, we should be taught that no human condition should inspire men with absolute despair.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

It is defeat that turns bone to flint, gristle to muscle, and makes men invincible.

Men are not put into this world to be everlastingly played on by the harping fingers of joy.

I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.

Never give up on learning because what you put up there in your brain," he indicated my head with his index finger, "the Communists won't ever be able to take away from you.

we often neglect to tell about those who go on in their dogged way to keep the world afloat and who seek to endure in the face of great trials.

As I said earlier, life happens, and you will inevitably run into a situation that you simply could not plan for at some point in your life. Although you may not be able to plan for the event itself, the best that you can do is ensure that you are financially prepared to handle it and reduce or eliminate any additional stress from an already stressful situation.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

Once, when she was travelling to one of her convents, St. Teresa of Ávila was knocked off her donkey and fell into the mud, injuring her leg. "Lord," she said, "you couldn't have picked a worse time for this to happen. Why would you let this happen?" And the response in prayer that she heard was, "That is how I treat my friends." Teresa answered, "And that is why you have so few of them!

there are people whose nature it is to be very much cast down by small things.

for the devil never slumbers. And the nearer we are to perfection, the more careful we must be, since his temptations are then much more cunning because there are no others that he dare send us;

For the devil does not allow a single bad habit to disappear and the very weakness of our mortal nature destroys the virtues in us.

You're a superhero. Deal with it.

Even if you are in a labyrinth at a dead end you have a choice; Change your course and seek an another exit or break down the wall. It's your choice.

I used to hear about guys who played saying how difficult it is getting up in the morning, and now I'm experiencing it those same effects.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed." When

And the more trauma you sustained as a child, the more compelling you and me becomes.

The game doesn't always go your way. Forget fair. Feel forgotten. But damn it, Anna, You don't stop playing.

Hey, Life only gets you down if you let it.

Thorns and stings And those such things Just make stronger Our angel wings.

Life is not always fair. Sometimes you get a splinter sliding down a rainbow.