Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes it's a dog-eat-dog world and the rest of the time it's the other way around.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. —Mike Tyson

we are all inevitably someone's adversary.

The Art of War did not provide a single route to victory and recognized that while battles were best avoided they sometimes had to be fought.

cómo lidiar con enemigos que son más fuertes que tú.

always show confidence, for you can see your own troubles but you cannot see those facing your enemy.12

la ingeniosa frase de Winston Churchill— «lo único que vas a hacer es remover escombros».

The choice of strategy might be based on common sense: the test of character was to find this in situations of extreme stress.

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas, wind at all angles and ever varying force, arched surfaces, head resistance, ratio of weight to area, and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

Every lawyer shall tell his or her client that becoming involved with the legal system is like three years of experimental chemotherapy, one hundred percent guaranteed not to work.

Every once in a while I don't think it's a bad idea for lawyers to remember that what goes on, at least on some level of our brains, is that we have to imagine everything coming apart. ... It's what we are. Out of control, always prepared, Boy Scout control freaks.

There's nothing you can do about where the pieces are," he'd say. "It's only your next move that matters.

Sterren realized he would have to rely on his wits -- and those wits were good enough that he knew he would rather not have to rely on them.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

With new hope. We build new lives. Why complain when it rains? This is what it means to be free.

Even monkeys fall out of trees.

If you're in a hole, don't dig, they say.

There is a big difference between fighting the cold war and fighting radical Islam. The rules have changed and we haven't.

The difference, I think, is that in Vietnam, people seem to have no choice about the kind of house they live in. They may want to fix the roof, but they can't do much about it, so they fight each other for a dry spot on the floor away from all the leaks.

The special gift of that suffering, I have learned, is how to be strong while we are weak, how to be brave when we are afraid, how to be wise in the midst of confusion, and how to let go of that which we can no longer hold. In this way, anger can teach forgiveness, hate can teach us love, and war can teach us peace.

Every sad thing, every loss or hurt really a challenge to love that much more, really just another of beauty's many strongholds.