Quotes About Adversity

Katniss Everdeen did not think she was good enough to win the Hunger Games. But she had no choice. The writing game is an arena and once you're in, don't waste precious time worrying about how good you are. Gather your weapons and supplies, and fight.

Could be worse!

Now I think I understand how this world can overcome a man.

Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige...

It's forty kilometers through hell, sir," said the sergeant. Mitty finished one last brandy. "After all," he said softly, "what isn't?

Books can be burned," croaked Black. "They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus.

I won't go down the horrible street To see the horrible people I'll gladly climb the terrible stair That leads to the terrible steeple And the terrible rats And the terrible bats And the cats in the terrible steeple But I won't go down the horrible street To see the horrible people

When times are bad smile, when times are good laugh.

I woo'd a woman once, But she was sharper than an eastern wind.

Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

It is hard for one man to beat an army," Danil said. "But not impossible," Baradar answered.

Today was going to get a whole lot worse before it got better.

They soon learned how difficult and hostile school can be for a child who is different.

When I look back on my life,I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something Good, I was actually being redirected to something Better.

Sometimes, when your world blows up, you discover sparkly bits among the debris.

Deep within the stench of despair blooms the perfume of hope. —DB

He was not yet old enough to be able to grade his own misfortunes: it is one of the maturer accomplishments.

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. . . . It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. William Ernest Henley

Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.

Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.

We do not suffer by accident.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.