Quotes About Adversity

don't be afraid—the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again.

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!

Courtney came over to me and touched my cheek. I winced. It hurt. You look like hell, Courtney said. I shrugged. She looked at Saint Dane, then back at me. He looks worse. She smiled. Awesome.

There were eleven of us. Each more different than the next. All with the same mindset. Things weren't the way they were meant to be. It was our job to make things right. We were the soldiers of Halla. It was time for us to take it back.

I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

Reality is harsh. It can be cruel and ugly. Yet no matter how much we grieve over our environment and circumstances nothing will change. What is important is not to be defeated, to forge ahead bravely. If we do this, a path will open before us.

Rise to the challenges that life presents you. You can't develop genuine character and ability by sidestepping adversity and struggle.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

When fate hands you lemons, make lemonade.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

1. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen?" 2. Prepare to accept it if you have to. 3. Then calmly proceed to improve on the worst.

For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level Dwelling preferable. The tallest Trees are most in the Power of the Winds, and Ambitious Men of the Blasts of Fortune. Buildings have need of a good Foundation, that lie so much exposed to the Weather.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means—we have everything to gain!

A man is not hurt so much by what happens, as by his opinion of what happens.

I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

The load of tomorrow, added to that of yesterday, carried today, makes the strongest falter.

There is a Scandinavian saying which some of us might well take as a rallying cry for our lives: 'The north wind made the Vikings.' Wherever did we get the idea that secure and pleasant living, the absence of difficulty, and the comfort of ease, ever of themselves made people either good or happy?

Cuando el destino nos entregue un limón, tratemos de convertirlo en limonada.

Bitter criticism caused the sensitive Thomas Hardy, one of the finest novelists ever to enrich English literature, to give up forever the writing of fiction. Criticism drove Thomas Chatterton, the English poet, to suicide.

We can all endure disaster and tragedy and triumph over them—if we have to. We may not think we can, but we have surprisingly strong inner resources that will see us through if we will only make use of them. We are stronger than we think.