Quotes About Adversity

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

A successfull man is who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at us.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others have thrown at him.

His moral task was to suffer well, to be worthy of his sufferings. He could not control how much he suffered, but he could control his inner response to his sufferings.

People who endure suffering are taken beneath the routine busyness of life and find they are not who they believed themselves to be.

The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal

The hero becomes strongest at his weakest point.

The beauty in life is in the struggles along the way to character.

Our darkest hour is often the prelude to a great victory. God invades our circumstances and hides us with His cloak.

Our darkest hour is often the prelude to a great victory. God invades our circumstances and

Sometimes when storms break out, a person must be willing to let go of the weights that hold him down.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

They that walk, walk with many. They that run, run with few. But those that fly, fly alone.

To the extent I am good at anything other than falling down, it is getting back up, at overcoming low expectations—many of them my own—to do things I didn't think I was capable of.

The best intentions frequently met their match around me.

Born to be a husband and a father, he found himself, through no fault of his own, when near on seventy, a childless widower; well liked by many, but needed by none.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

Looking back, video game design seems a natural fit, although there was no such thing when I was growing up. I built a Tic-Tac-Toe playing machine in my teens which went up in smoke on the night it was scheduled to go to a science fair.

In the last decades of the nineteenth century, the life of a secondary schoolmaster was as miserable as it has ever been,

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

The United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it's kicked in the flanks.

One of the consequences of optimism is that one expects to learn from failure – one's own and others'.