Quotes About Adversity

I've been homeless on a few occasions.

As any fighter does, we all go down. Very few get up. I've done it on multiple occasions.

Sometimes all you have left to win with is the knowledge of why you're taking the beating and the realization that nobody else is going to save you from it.

Kid, I can handle anything but the middle of the night.

For what is a curse but an unfair theft of strength. (Whatever is attempted in the way of improving your position brings back less than the effort exerted.)

zabitiy, which means somebody beats you, beats you, beats you, until you are beaten down.

The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.

The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.

Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle

The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.

It is a pity," he wrote, "that people should let themselves be defeated by the problems, cares, and difficulties of human existence, and it is quite unnecessary.

Always remember that to every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

Once when Stonewall Jackson planned a daring attack, one of his generals fearfully objected, saying, "I am afraid of this" or "I fear that …" Putting his hand on his timorous subordinate's shoulder, Jackson said, "General, never take counsel of your fears.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things?" What things? Why, anything! Disappointment, frustration, nervousness, despair, anxiety, injustice: "What shall we then say to these things?" Well, the answer is . . . "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Isn't that wonderful? That is resonant, that is sturdy, that is the essence of victory.

There was Glenn Cunningham, whose legs were so badly burned as a child that he was told he would not walk again. But he became one of the fastest Olympic milers in history. Glenn Cunningham told me that faith and positive thinking are 85 per cent of an athlete's success;

Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers.

Lord: "I believe You have a plan for my life, so there must be some purpose in my getting fired. Instead of railing against my fate, I humbly ask You to show me the purpose in what has happened." Once he began to believe there had been a reason and some meaning behind what had happened to him, it was easier to rid himself of resentment against his former employers. And once that happened he was "employable" again.

Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up toward the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that. What happens to them? insisted Milo. Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else, said Alec thoughtfully, and I've heard that they walk among the stars.