Quotes About Adversity

the object was not to stay alive but to stay human.

Katniss should have the most reasons to hate, having been sent into the arena not once, but twice. But despite everything she's been through, she's still capable of seeing the so-called "enemy" as individuals rather than as a monolithic entity. She remembers that Octavia snuck her a roll rather than see her hungry and that Flavius had to quit during the Quarter Quell because he couldn't stop crying.

Katniss Everdeen can survive her darkness because she understands the same truth that's expressed in that graffiti in Palestine. Her heart is a weapon, and the way to keep fighting against all the horror and cruelty of the world is to wield that weapon. To keep loving.

the wider world's reaction has often been disdainful. In 1984, the first Mac's graphical user interface was widely derided as "a toy." Bill Gates was mystified that people wanted colored computers. Critics initially called on Apple to open up the iPod. Without a strong belief in his vision, a passion for what he was doing, it would be much harder for Jobs to resist the critics.

I'm living life as best I can - but I'm not exempt from failure and making bad choices.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

When I was 5, some financial things happened, and I moved seven times in a year. We moved from apartment to apartment, sometimes living with friends. My mom would always say, 'Don't get comfortable, because we may not be here long.'

Being the only man in the household with my mom definitely helped me grow up fast.

I belong to a nation which over the past centuries has experienced many hardships and reverses. The world reacted with silence or with mere sympathy when Polish frontiers were crossed by invading armies and the sovereign state had to succumb to brutal force.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

Just when everything seems to go along just fine, Life comes by and throws you its line.

When Grandma read me: Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall . . . I never knew that Humpty's fall was something that someday comes to us all.

With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine.

Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us.

Now they broke my toothbrush, I don't own anything.

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Leaders devoid of crucible experiences are likely to be overly confident about their ideas, and surprisingly more susceptible to fears; this is also true of children who are overly sheltered from facing challenges and experiences that help build their character. Courageously facing our fears in the difficult times gives us both humility and real confidence.

You really think you can get away with punishing a detective who was shot by a deputy and two days later, despite her wounds and her place getting firebombed, caught the killer of a city councilman? She has your balls in a vise and knows it.

In prosperity we need moderation; in adversity, patience

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluable problems.

It's a good thing god doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.