Quotes About Adversity

You will never face an evil you have not the strength to master.

a famous quote by Nietzsche, "Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster.

the best fishing is done in the most stormy waters.

If your portfolio risk exceeds your tolerance for loss, there is a high likelihood that you will abandon your plan when the going gets rough.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

But after awhile you stand up, wipe the frost out of your ear, go someplace to get warm, bum a nickel for coffee, and then start walkin' toward somewheres else that ain't near no bridge.

Buck, the heart is a rubber ball. No matter how hard it's crushed, it bounces back.

that nobody's born mean. Life warps you in terrible ways.

The heart is a rubber ball. No matter how hard it's crushed, it bounces back.

is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

sometimes the only way a man learns the true spirit of a rock is to stub his toe on it.

At the heart of most things that look bad is something that can be good and useful.

body heals itself, but there is a scar.

In a way, they weren't that different from the kids at Lincoln School, who'd been thrown together with almost nothing. But Lincoln School had been overseen by the likes of DiMarco and the Black Witch and her lizard-on-two-legs husband, and fear had been what we'd all shared the most. With the crusade, the spirit of Sister Eve ran through everything, and that made all the difference.

All that might have been good in my life had been destroyed by the Tornado God.

In all my life I've learned two things." He pointed to the black patch over his eye. "One is never call a small man in a uniform 'Shorty.' The other is that nothing is ever hopeless.

Quello che voglio dire, Odie, è che nessuno nasce cattivo. La vita ti deforma in maniera terribile.

I'm just saying, Odie, that nobody's born mean. Life warps you in terrible ways.

You can keep company with despair, or you can choose a different companion.