Quotes About Adversity

sufficient for the day was the evil thereof.

Ye never saw dull weather clear without a shower; and if the world is turned upside down, why, honest men have the better chance to cut bread out of it.

Disappointments are like weeds in the garden. You can let them grow and take over your life, or you can rout them out and let the flowers sprout.

Things don't always go the way we want. I've come to realize that some things just aren't meant to be.

with others, are likely to experience such a year.

Cash combined with courage in a time of crisis is priceless." -Warren Buffett

One of the lessons your management has learned—and, unfortunately, sometimes re-learned—is the importance of being in businesses where tailwinds prevail rather than headwinds.

a super-rat. I nailed it across the eyes once with a lucky shot with the butt of my gun, but it got up again and shat in my telephone.

He took a deep breath and got a noseful of sun-warmed dog shit for his trouble.

if we're having a bad time now, we were given a really rockbottom thorough training for it these past three hundred years and more." "Past is past," Mister Eddie says and he said it real easy. "Except when it's present," Lance says.

a group of refugee boys who had survived the unimaginable, strangers now in an unfamiliar land, playing the game with passion, focus, and grace that seemed, for a brief moment anyway, to nullify the effects of whatever misfortune they had experienced in the past.

Let us remember that each time people treat us in an ill manner, speak evil of us, or make unreasonable demands of us, they are giving us opportunity to react as Christians.

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.

The falls of our life provide us with the energy to propel ourselves to a higher level.

Fully functioning people never complain, and particularly they don't complain about the rocks being rough, or the sky being cloudy or the ice being too cold. Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

Living Untroubled by Good or Bad Fortune

Things can break down, a depression can wipe out your money, your house can be repossessed, but you, you can be a rock of self-esteem.

If you can meet triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same . . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it.

This lack of emotional involvement in problems makes them able to surmount barriers that remain insurmountable to others.

the idea of looking at the most damaging things in your life, the things that have caused you the most pain and suffering, and figuring out a way to turn those into your greatest teachers, bearing your greatest gifts.

Benjamin Franklin once observed, "While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

You don't learn much from a victory except to stay the same.

Keep in mind that when you've reached the valley floor, the only direction you can go is upward.