Quotes About Adversity

Even if... you are hurt now and cry... you'll be stronger afterwards... and get up again for sure.

For humans, being able to 'forget' is what allows them to survive through their cruel and harsh lives.

One who has known only a sweet and easy life could never do anything to move another's soul. That goes for the observer as well. That's why hardship isn't without its merits, either. I'm sure this will be a trying time for you. You may face even more trying times in the future. But whether you choose to make it your leg-iron or your shield is all up to you.

You emerge from tragedy equipped against lies. After the musical, you're anybody's fool

Sports is human life in microcosm.

We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, or we can say, "I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and now I'm going to try to make myself a life worth living

my earliest memories of the snow are unhappy ones. I stepped into a snow drift that was so deep I sank in up to my waist and couldn't get out.

When you've been at the bottom, nothing looks that bad, and I had been at the bottom for quite a while. The bottom was normal for me. But the bottom got worse.

That's true for everybody, I guess. We are all the victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, knowing that if we fail it isn't really our fault, or we can say, "I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and I'm going to try to make myself a life worth living." I

Jean Monnet: "I regard every defeat as an opportunity.

History's lesson is that bullies ultimately defeat themselves.

You should never envy anyone. One day you might be in that person's position and it might not be so nice.

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

Never forget the six-foot-tall man who drowned crossing the stream that was five feet deep on average.

Life is a cement trampoline.

After the storm, many citizens left New Orleans to live elsewhere, but those who stayed were determined to rebuild. They loved their city.

When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity.

All great companies have passed through bad years that forced soul-searching and rethinking of priorities. How we deal with them will be the litmus test.

In the course of the year I spent trying to raise money, I spoke to 242 people, and 217 of them said "no.

Starbucks was under attack, mostly from within.

Any company, when faced with adversity, would be tempted to go forward with an idea that promises to quickly erase pain. But in business as in life, people have to stay true to their guiding principles.

If either player abandon the game by quitting the table in anger, or in an otherwise offensive manner or by momentarily resigning the game or refuses to abide by the decision of the Umpire, the game must be scored against him.

It is a grievous blunder to assume that understanding is always sympathetic. Very often we use the phrase "I understand" to mean something kindly, warm, and gracious. But there is an understanding that is hard, cold, minute, and deadly. It is the kind of understanding that one gives to the enemy, or that is derived from an accurate knowledge of another's power to injure. There is an

This book provides a message to Black children on how to thrive and flourish in a world that attempts to destroy their humanity from the "inside" out.