Quotes About Adversity

It looks bad right now, but remember, this too shall pass.

Setbacks are a natural part of life, and you've got to be careful how you respond to them.

There's nothing that funny about failure.

People always think that we're the dregs and we're the trash and we're the bottoms of the pickle barrel, but we do all right!

We faced tremendous odds with an improbable chance of survival. Singapore was not a natural country but man-made, a trading post the British had developed into a nodal point in their worldwide maritime empire. We inherited the island without its hinterland, a heart without a body.

in a snap the world can fall dwon around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.

You people work together to make sure nothing ever changes. Shoganai. Shoganai. That's all I ever hear Book 3, p374

Man, life's going to keep pushing you sround, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

Man, life's going to keep pushing you around, but you have to keep playing Book 3, p378

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season

This place Augusta National rejects me like a skin transplant.

We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.

It is one thing to say you're at war with this whole world and stick your chest out believing it, but when the world shows up with it's crushing numbers and its predatory knowledge, it is another thing completely.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

A hard-boiled little lamb going to talk a lot of lions out of their dinner, Comyn told himself grimly.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers

Better to know defeat from courage

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

Born to lose. Live to win.

I suppose I'll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm!