Quotes About Adversity

The rains began. Hard, constant, they battered the fields, turned the roads to mud, crushed the gold leaves into the ground and turned them black. In the wood, the sodden trees and brambles bowed beneath the torrents.

Today green pastureland has dried up and turned to sandy plains, and the land provides little support to the herders, who can barely scratch out an existence in the semi-arid climate. Each day is a test of their survival.

Bad news doesn't hurt as much, if you hear it in good company. It's like, if somebody pushes you out of a 5th floor window and you bounce off an awning, a car roof, and a pile of plastic garbage bags before you smash onto the pavement, you've got a pretty good chance of surviving.

You trust God, and no matter what happens, you refuse to let your faith be shaken.

She had seen just now what she had only sensed before, that the whole world was ready to be their enemy, and suddenly what she and Carol had together seemed no longer love or anything happy but a monster between them, with each of them caught in a fist.

There was something demoniacal and insuperable about typographical errors, as if they were part of the natural evil that permeated man's existence, as if they had a life of their own and were determined to manifest themselves no matter what, as surely as weeds in the best-tended gardens.

He remembered deciding then that the world was full of Simon Legrees, and that you had to be an animal, as tough as the gorillas who worked with him at the warehouse, or starve.

There is no moral to my life - I have none - except: 'Stand up and take it'. The rest is sentiment.

You either let some event ruin your life or not. The decision is yours.

I can easily bear cold, loneliness, hunger and toothache, but I cannot bear noise, heat, interruprions, or other people.

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards.

The implacable Indian had turned out to be one hell of a cantankerous patient. Besides

Tuve aflicción por no tener zapatos hasta que vi a quien no tenia pies.

Todos los hombres tienen temores, pero los valientes los olvidan y van adelante, a veces hasta la muerte, pero siempre hasta la victoria. Ese era el lema de la Guardia Real en la antigua Grecia.

encouragement can be given any time, even when things go poorly.

Sponsors dropped him, his wife left him, and his golf skills suffered greatly.

it is a good thing to have to endure an agonizing experience occasionally. It is good to know that we have hit bottom and survived. That makes all our daily problems seem easy by comparison.

Aren't we all like that battling giant of the forest? Don't we manage somehow to survive the rare storms and avalanches and lightning blasts of life, only to let our hearts be eaten out by little beetles of worry—little beetles that could be crushed between a finger and a thumb?

Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

are all imperfect beings full of shortcomings, and this affords us perhaps as many opportunities

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose.

rhyme as one of his mottoes: For every ailment under the sun, There is a remedy, or there is none; If there be one, try to find it; If there be none, never mind it.

The next time Trouble—with a capital T—backs you up in a corner, try the magic formula of Willis H Carrier: a. Ask yourself, "What is the worst that can possibly happen if I can't solve my problem?" b. Prepare yourself mentally to accept the worst—if necessary. c. Then calmly try to improve upon the worst—which you have already mentally agreed to accept.

Lincoln guardou a carta pois aprendera, por meio de experiências amargas, que críticas duras e reprovações quase nunca geram algo de útil.