Quotes About Adversity

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Failure isn't falling. It's refusing to get back up.

Giving up is always an option, but not always a failure.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you react to it

Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes.

Maybe life isn't about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it's about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it.

None of us are responsible for all the things that happen to us, but we are responsible for the way we act when they do happen.

Nothing can be called failure until you accept it as such. You can transmute all past failures and mistakes into assets. Adversity is Nature's method of disciplining people to learn to take possession of their own minds. Greatest blessings often come from the greatest adversities. Study yourself carefully and you may discover that your own emotions are your greatest handicap in the business of accurate thinking.

Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

She was unstoppable not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she continues on despite them.

Some days you're the dog, and some days you're the hydrant.

The difficulties we experience Always illuminate the lessons we need most.

There was never in the history of the world a great politician who was not hated by large numbers of inferior men.

Use disappointments as material for patience.

We are the perfect couple, we're just not in the perfect situation.

So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them.

When the flood tides of human adversity, selfishness, cruelty, hate, malice, and jealousy beat about the mortal soul, you may rest in the assurance that there is one inner bastion, the citadel of the spirit, which is absolutely unassailable; at least this is true of every human being who has dedicated the keeping of his soul to the indwelling spirit of the eternal God.

Life, we can now say, is getting something to happen against the odds, and remembering how to do it.

This did not faze Danny, who had been called much worse things, occasionally by the emergency room staff. (Seriously, though, why would anyone make chocolate-flavored laxatives? It was just asking for trouble.)

The world was hard and fierce, but it also contained tomato sandwiches, and if that didn't make it a world worth living in, your standards were unreasonably high.

and that's how Snuggles the hamster learned that yes, things COULD always get worse.

und weil sie schon vorher gewusst hatte dass Freiheit nicht das Anderskönnen bedeutet sondern das Andersmüssen...

That even in the dark times there are bright moments, and that the darker the times are the brighter those moments seem.