Quotes About Adversity

The difficulties we face originate from one of three sources. Some are sent to us by the Lord to test our faith, others are the result of Satan's attacks, and still others are due to our own sinful choices.

Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sun-shiny.

Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.

If you don't get this elementary, but mildly unnatural, mathematics of elementary probability into your repertoire, then you go through a long life like a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest.

Our character is determined not by our circumstances but by our reaction to those circumstances.

If I have anything at all I am still the Hero. I am here. This was my story. This is my problem. I'm going back down there to fix it.

But the widest gulf in the world is the distance between getting by and not quite getting by. Crossing that gap can happen in a hundred ways, almost all by accident. Bad day at work and/or kid has a fever and/or miss the bus and consequently ten minutes late

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.

In this desperate way, I started many a comedy.

I have many problems in my life. But my lips don't know that". They just keep smiling.

we must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature – or go insane.

Fight to live life, to suffer it and to enjoy it. Life is wonderful if you are not afraid of it.

Esta rapariga era uma criadita que costumava servir-nos na pensão barata onde eu vivia. Lembrava-me que saiu em desgraça, tragicamente, mas consegui detectar uma certa glória selvagem nela. Estava a continuar com a sua vida contra tido e todos. A sua luta é a batalha suprema do nosso tempo. Que ela e todos os outros como ela possam encontrar um destino gentil.

We was half stupid, a third lucky, and three-quarters ferocious.

There was a reason these boys were still alive, though. Something made them stronger than the other kids, the ones who had died in the early days, who had simply lain down and given up, unable to cope with the terrible things that were happening in the world. These boys were survivors. The will to live was stronger than any other feelings.

You got to harden yourself. Make, like, a shell around you. But not everyone can do it. If they got nothing to hang on to some of them screw up. They're not in the game no more.

It ain't going to happen, babes, 'said Dognut. 'I know what you're thinking, but we ain't gonna be overwhelmed. We can do this. 'No, we can't.' 'Yes, we can.' Dognut kissed her fiercely, the briefest of kisses, and then he raised his sword above his head. 'Let's do this. You and me, girl, let's take it to them! Dognut and Courtney against the world!

Well, there's a shitstorm coming, Hayden. And we're going to be right in the middle of it.

Pain cannot be ignored. However, it can be endured. When necessary, a great deal of pain can be endured. Just ask my mother.

God never breaks a man down with problems except to build him up.

Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.

Some people are doomed from birth because their environment is so toxic.

Since its founding, Detroit has been a place of perpetual flames. Three times the city has suffered race riots and three times the city has burned to the ground. The city's flag acknowledges as much. Speramus Meliora; Resurget Cineribus: We hope for better things; it shall rise from the ashes.