Quotes About Adversity

Don't cry over spilt burrito — that's why they invented forks.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

Mozart composed music of radiant vivacity, sparkle, and wit at times when he was crushed by neglect, debt, and the awful discouragement of living his whole life insufficiently compensated and recognized.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet; These are not done by jostling in the street.

When life throws you scraps, make a quilt.

I felt as if I had been confronted by a blank wall, but panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say, in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well, this isn't too bad. I don't have my left arm anymore, but at least nobody will ever ask me whether I am right-handed or left-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of "Aaaaah! My arm! My arm!"

It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience.

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

The heroine stumbled, but each time she picked herself up was another victory.

Spring is on the way; summer is on the way; storms are on the way; wars are on the way; sorrow and happiness are on the way; they are all on the way, they are coming! Everything is on the way! Life is a highway; while we are moving on the way, all else is coming towards us! Devil is on the way; angel is on the way! Stay firm on the way!

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

The story of his youth was a series of bitternesses, as is the case with almost all distinguished men. Poverty sits by their cradle, and keeps watch over them till they have grown up; and this lean nurse remains their true companion through life.

When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles!

Beautiful rainbows and life water come from a dark rain cloud — What gifts can you bring the world even in your times of darkness?

Put on your big girl panties and deal with it.

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

Be thankful for the little things, that always come your way, For little things to wondrous size, perchance may grow some day. Don't cast aside red roses, just because of one sharp thorn, Remember it's the darkest night, that brings the brightest dawn.

From the thorn bush comes the rose.

The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.

Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we've been through.

Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you are stronger than whatever tried to hurt you.

Resolve is never stronger than in the morning after the night it was never weaker.

With all its ups and downs, skipping is just one more metaphor for life.