Quotes About Adversity

In the middle of a negotiation, what they planned to ask for suddenly seems ridiculous, excessive, too much. If this happens to you, hold on tight to the information you've collected, and don't suddenly revise your goals downward. Focus on your target and fight the impulse to concede too quickly. After all your hard work, don't make the mistake of walking away too soon.

I want you to remember this—you and I are in this life together. All the way. We don't run just because we get sacked a few times.

At its best, parenthood was a challenge. At its worst, it was a struggle through quicksand.

Being positive in a negative situation is not naive -- it's leadership!

They have locked up my body, but can imprision neither my mind nor my soul.

You've been a cop long enough to know that sometimes bad things happen to good people. It's out of your control. You gotta let go or it will drive you nuts.

Surely, grief chokes courage, blinds knowledge, and clouds the senses. There is no greater enemy than grief.

God is so great that he can take anything and bring good from it.

The enemy knows God has a purpose and plan for your life. The enemy is the one who wants you to give up.

You belong to God, so no matter what the enemy is able to accomplish in your life, God will turn the tables on him and turn your disaster into a miracle.

Most risks we might not take if we could see what we would have to go through to reach our goal. Yet, we would never not take most risks if we knew the great learning experience and soul enrichment they would bring.

Battaglia gagged her. Told her to take the high road. Fuck the high road, I said. It's usually a dead end. --Mike Chapman to Lee, Crime Scene Photographer.

Better to say "I tried and failed and moved on" than "I never tried because I thought I might fail.

In order to live a life truly worth living you had to have strength in the face of adversity, patience when confronted by challenge, and bravery in the face of fear. As Sandy Portman I had used arrogance in the face of fear, disdain in the face of challenge, and selfishness in the face of adversity.

In order to live a life truly worth living you had to have strength in the face of adversity, patience when confronted with challenge, and bravery in the face of fear.

Faced with the daunting prospect of a party at which both my ex-husband and my ex-lover would be present with their much younger fiancées, I did what any woman would do in such an emergency. I shopped.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep. Clive Barker

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

from J. K. Rowling

Life is constant—and changing," Cate mused. "We can never guess what will happen in a day. We will all face danger, and finally death, be it from an accident, disease or old age.

Failure is how we learn—it's how we develop and acquire grit.

Happiness is not the absence of problems. It's the ability to deal with them.

Sometimes, everything in the world seems to be lined up against you. All the evidence says you ought to run the other way. Make the bravest choice, not the safest. It's not the best advice, but it's all I have to offer

It's not smart to hold yourself away from the shocks of life, the good ones or the bad. They're all part of the mix, and paradoxically, shying away from them only makes things harder.