Quotes About Adversity

If the wrestler doesn't fight with stronger opponents, he will not become stronger himself. So when you face all your difficulties bravely, with spiritual strength, you become even stronger and more powerful. By conquering when you are tested, you will revive the forgotten image of God within you, and become consciously one with the Father again. So we must remember to use our God-given strength to overcome our trials, and thereby strengthen our inner lives.

You know your the best when people you don't know hate you.

When people you don't even know hate you, that's when you know you're the best.

Each time a door closes, the rest of the world opens up.

Sunt victorii care duc la un impas, tot aÅŸa cum sunt înfrângeri care deschid c?i noi.

And the Great Adventure - the real life equivalent of all the adventure stories they'd devoured as boys - consisted of crouching in a dugout, waiting to be killed. The war that had promised so much in the way of 'manly' activity had actually delivered 'feminine' passivity, and on a scale that their mothers and sisters had hardly known. No wonder they broke down.

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There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Losing prepares you for the heartbreak, setback, and the tragedy that you will encounter in the world more than winning ever can. By licking your wounds you learn how to avoid getting wounded the next time.

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

Scarlett (O'Hara) taught that one could be hungry and despairing, but not broken and not without resources, spiritual in nature, that precluded one from surrendering without a fight

And in that instant was born the terrible awareness that life eventually broke every man, but in different ways and at different times.

Losing well was a gift, but winning well is this stuff of the authentic manhood.

Laughter is the only strategy that has ever worked at all for me when my world was falling apart.

Sergeant Hicks seemed to be laid out in squares as though he were constructed out of cinder blocks. There was a hardness to his body that made his uniform appear to be little more than a paint job. He walked as if each step he took was driving a hated enemy toward a precipice.

Upstaged by a schizophrenic, Dallas said. The story of my life.

There is no stronger brotherhood than between two boys who discover that both were born to fathers who waged war on their sons.

that life was good, but it was hard; we would prepare to meet it head on, but we would enjoy the preparation.

realized his wounds had enhanced his manhood and his own sense of himself.

There is no downside to winning. It feels forever fabulous. But there is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss. The great secret of athletics is that you can learn more from losing than winning.

After a glorious victory in a grand war, the hardest battle to fight is the first little skirmish of the next campaign.

It's what you get from games you lose that is extremely important.

There was a moral foundation to Walt's movies that people tapped into—a basic moral foundation. In Disney films, you see strong values and role models. You see the importance of being kind to others, of serving others, of finding joy even in adversity.

La amistad, la compasión y la alegría clarifican y tranquilizan la mente. Deben practicarse tanto en la felicidad como en la desgracia, tanto con quienes nos ayudan como con aquellos que nos perjudican.