Quotes About Adversity

Our worst day brings out the best in us

I've been ripped off, conned, lied to and cheated... but I'm still here. Cheaters never prosper. If stealing from you is the only way for them to get ahead - they're never going to get very far. Because thats all they are - just a thief. When they lose it, they can't rebuild because they don't know how. They never did the ground work in the first place. All they know is how to steal!

It's our scars that define us.

We attack the problems. They don't attack us.

Shit happens, but it only stinks as long as you keep it around.

I'm armed and I'm ready to deal with a ghost, a man, his ex-girlfriend, or an assassin.

That must have been devastating." "At the time, yes," I admit, "but it helped me become me. We grow with every mountain we climbed. Even the ones that we fall down." "Even those we fall down," she says softly, almost to herself. She flicks me a look. "I think falling down is better than not climbing.

My mother used to say that to me and my brother, Gio, and even in the years since she passed, the words echo in my mind, as I know they must in my brother's. After all, we heard those words on nearly a daily basis from the moment our father disappeared until the moment our mother died seven years later.

Nah. I'm a tough cookie. Except for the cancer, I'm fine.

Most girls get flowers or candy. I get a declaration of martial law.

Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity. No?

Loyalty is not loyalty unless one clings to it in the face of adversity.

But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

in the end it's not just the big and small events that make you who you are, make your life what it is, it's how you choose to react to them-that's where you have control over your life.

Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how well you can swim.

Some of the hardest things you go through will teach you the most.

Life is a process of storms and rebuilding, of fires and regrowth, of loss and gain.

You know how it is. The storms come and it's water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don't suppose this storm will be any different.

Hardship finds its way into every life. It's just much easier to see our own than other people's. Hannah

I wanted to write it on paper and fold it up in a box to remind myself, the next time I couldn't see anything but mountains ahead, that where there's a mountain, there's always a river flowing nearby. Ultimately the river is the more powerful of the two.

my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

beginning. In my multifold years of life, I have learned that most people get along as best they can. They don't intend to hurt anyone. It is merely a terrible by-product of surviving.

Ultimately, it's not so much what life deals you as what you choose to own that matters, a spiritually searching law clerk had once said to

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.