Quotes About Adversity

They wanted me to crawl," she told Magdalena finally. "And I'm ready to run.

we can't expect anything important in life to be easy or entirely enjoyable

Time flies when you're falling down"...(not from a book, it's a lyric)

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

The times in your life where you do hard things, you look adversity in the eye and face it down; despite possibly fearness in a turmoil of fear would be the best times of your life. These things you look back on as the building blocks of your person that you ultimately become. ~Dr. Craig Challen

A wind started up. It began scouring our cheeks, and we lifted hands, blocking our faces from a gauze of blowing sand. So much wind came that it was hard to breathe without covering our noses and mouths. We stood and shouldered our packs to keep going. Sidewinder tracks lifted off the dunes and flew around us.

I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.

School did give me one of the greatest gifts of my life, though. I learned how to read, and for that I remain thankful. I would have died otherwise. As soon as I was able, I read, alone. Under the covers with a flashlight or in my corner of the attic—I sought solace in books. It was from books that I started to get an inkling of the kinds of assholes I was dealing with. I found allies too, in books, characters my age who were going through or had triumphed against the same bullshit.

I don't know why I was so afraid of failure; the most interesting people I know have failed more than they have succeeded. This may be because life is not as simple as it appears to a desperately ambitious young man, or it could be that all my friends are losers.

Real men aren't afraid of childish accusations. (Quite the paradox eh?)

Failure is the tuition you pay for success.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. —Jonatan Mårtensson

If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relationship with God.

YOU CANNOT CONTROL WHAT HAPPENS TO YOU, BUT YOU CAN CONTROL HOW YOU FRAME IT.

God calls you to stand. Your enemy wants you to fall. So as God's warrior, there are only two acceptable actions. You're either standing or you're getting back up. Even if Satan trips you, you're not down forever. Get back up. Never stay down.

My point is when the odds are fifty-fifty in an area of your life that matters, you change your behavior.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf.

Feelings are much like waves. We can't stop them from coming, but we can choose which one to surf. —Jonatan Mårtensson 3.1 SPIRIT-LED, NOT

So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if sometimes that feels hard, this is a good thing, not a bad thing.

Failure is an event, never a person.

Paul wrote these words: "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through [Christ] who gives me strength" (Phil. 4:12–13).

Walt Longmire: "I punched him in the fist with my nose, but I think he'll live.

Don't you think scars make better stories than tattoos?

When you go to a dogfight, it's always good to bring the meanest bitch.