Quotes About Adversity

A bad attitude is the only true handicap.

The optimist, as you probably know, is a person who, when he wears out his shoes, just figures he's back on his feet.

I am convinced that the attitude we cultivate in advance may well determine how suffering will affect us when it does strike.

The real "it is well" is something I say from the ground, having fallen.

The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.

Is your problem really your problem, or is it your attitude towards the problem that's your problem?

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

All birds find shelter during a rain. But eagle avoids rain by flying above the clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.

Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference.

We will be at our best when times are at their worst because of our habits, attitude and chemistry.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wored to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

I had to cope with attitudes that were not supportive all along. I mean, you still have that.

The very fact that these doctors continuing to be doctors--highly successful ones--despite their errors and their accompanying assaults on their self-definion would itself be a potent lesson to the students and interns. It is possible to hold one's head up after an error, to admit that errors are part and parcel of human existence, even in medicine. It is possible to see the error as an aspect of oneself, not the defining characteristic of oneself.

Her writing was her only escape, her only means of survival. It was a respite from a cruel world, despite seemingly comfortable surroundings.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

We're all given terrible trials sometimes, things that we think will break our spirit and kill us, and they make us stronger in the end. They seem like the cruelest blows, but in a funny way they're like compliments from God.

She had no idea where the future would lead her or what it would look like, but whatever happened, she was determined to survive it.

I had learned firsthand that tragedy and disappointment can strike any of us at any time.

But she was as they always were: strong, quiet, determined to prevail no matter what it cost them, brave in the face of sorrow.

Motherhood is not for the faint-hearted. Frogs, skinned knees, and the insults of teenage girls are not meant for the wimpy.

They were one flame made out of two people, with a love that had endured all the challenges and tragedies of life. But they were still standing, still alive, and still whole.

Life wasn't always easy, and had a way of filing down the sharp corners and rough edges.

I think that's how life works. Just when you think you have it all set up and perfectly arranged, someone sneezes, or God blows on it, and all the building blocks come tumbling down.

Every day, good stuff and bad stuff happens to us. It's what you do about it and how you handle it that matters.