Quotes About Adversity

route, one you hadn't planned on taking. You may not make it exactly at the time you thought you would reach your destination because of unforeseen variables.

This book is to help you understand that life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

Half the time, the very thing you think that's going to destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to anybody with skeletons is dust them off every now and then—as long as your closet ain't full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

Think about yourself as a baby eagle leaving a comfortable nest. If things start becoming difficult while you're taking flight, don't be afraid. Spread your wings and fly. God's got you.

The truth is I had to imagine myself in a better place," I explained. "Because sometimes the nights got so cold and the days

Everybody is dealt a different hand, but you have to do what you have with your hand.

get through the spring, summer, and autumn living paycheck to paycheck, but during the chilly months of winter, the money ran out and I couldn't pay my rent. The unthinkable happened. I became homeless. I'd sleep in my car and try to keep warm by running the heater or wrapping myself in a quilt Aunt Mae had given me. If I had some cash, I'd crash in a pay-by-the-week hotel room.

At eighteen years old, she found herself pregnant with my sister, and at nineteen pregnant again with my other sister. The abuse, beating, yelling, and belittling never stopped. At twenty-four years, she was pregnant again, and there I was, born into it.

I believe that everything that happens to you can work together for your good because I believe everything you deal with in this life is all for a reason and is supposed to make you a better person.

Everything that happens to you in this life, if you conquer it, if you beat it, you've won. Embrace every day you get.

Wear your pain like lip gloss!

Love me or hate me I promise that it will never make or break me...<3

BUT I'M NOT A VICTIM; I GROW FROM IT, AND I LEARN. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOURSELF.

When one door of opportunity slams shut in your face, you don't turn around and go home, boo. Oh, no. You just go through that side door, and if that's closed, go through the back door, the cellar door, the attic—just get in the damn house!

Hay formas de comportarse con dignidad moral incluso en circunstancias extremas

morale. Enfin, même si l'on pouvait observer une relation entre souffrance et morale, je ne vois pas quelle espèce de précepte on devrait en tirer : personne ne peut s'arroger le droit de recommander aux autres d'aspirer au malheur pour devenir plus vertueux.

But where danger lurks, the saving powers also grow.

Wherever the enemy goes let our troops go also.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who have helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. Then he who continues the attack wins.

There are many men who would have done better than I did under the circumstances in which I found myself. If I had never held command, if I had fallen, there were 10,000 behind who would have followed the contest to the end and never surrendered the Union.

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far.