Quotes About Adversity

Life imposes certain conditions upon us. If we don't accept the challenge, we become petrified. We don't have any real choice.

If you are born on the edge of a barrel of shit, you have to accept the likelihood of falling into it now and then.

What the hell did people have to keep them occupied on a damp and windy day in January apart from sitting indoors and lapping up the story of somebody who had suffered even more than they were doing.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

When an evil threatens us, and it is impossible to ward it off, why do we give up ourselves to the unprofitable fear of it, which is yet even more tormenting than the evil itself?

What a shame it is that a philosopher cannot accept what might befall any man.

Break the fast, and you will be stronger to confront the enemy.

State the idea so that it focuses on response. How do you want your listeners to respond? Instead of "You can rejoice in trials because they lead to maturity," try "Rejoice when hard times come." If you know what your listeners should do, tell them. State the idea so that your listeners sense you are talking to them about them.

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.

The Chinese write the word "crisis" with the same symbol as the word "opportunity.

You will find out who you are when the difficult moment comes.

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." ANN LANDERS

A wise man once said that next to losing its mother, there is nothing more healthy for a child than to lose its father.

War either makes you a fascist or a fag.)

Nenorocirile vin cu gramada, in timp ce norocul calatoreste intotdeauna signur, spuneau oamenii in vechime.

Laughing faces do not means that there is absence of sorrows but it means the they have ability to deal wit sorrows.........

Don't be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against not with the wind.

Do you fear the force of the wind, The slash of the rain? Go face them and fight them, Be savage again. Go hungry and cold like the wolf, Go wade like the crane: The palms of your hands will thicken, The skin of your cheek will tan, You'll grow ragged and weary and swarthy, But you'll walk like a man!

more than 150 years later, these crude breastworks are still in place). At dusk the men picked the meatiest of their stringy mules and slaughtered them for a thin gravy dinner. From that day on, this forlorn spot would be known as Mule Hill.

I felt as we floundered aimlessly about in the snow that it made little difference to me whether I lived or died. It seemed to me that the terrible journey would have no end. I was awake and aware of all that was transpiring around me, but had lost all feeling and power of speech, and existed like an animated dead man.

A hero, he'd once heard, was a person caught in the right place at the wrong t

She had sunk at latitude 77°15 N, longitude 155° E, a little more than seven hundred miles south of the North Pole.

We live in weary suspense," DeLong wrote. "Wintering in the pack may be a thrilling thing to read about alongside a warm fire, but the actual thing is sufficient to make any man prematurely old.