Quotes About Adversity

We mushrooms are used to being kept in the dark and fed shit three times a day.

Dana Stabenow

I'm glad that my parents missed one thing that was really unbelievable. They saw me hit this great success. It was a blast and we had a lot of laughs. And it was just an amazing time. They passed away. And then after I got, you know, famous, all these haters came out of nowhere.

You may think she should be soft and feminine, pampered and sweet, a lady in the accepted sense of the word, but she is what she is, sir, and acted with those qualities that, in a man, would have been applauded as heroic. Courageous." The gentle eyes looked up at Gray, silently condemning. "I'm sorry, sir. But I think you are unfair to reject the woman you love just because she defended that which she held most dear.

Really, Doctor, why do they insist upon giving us such a devil of a time?

If we are artists- hell, whether or not we're artists- it is our job, our responsibility, perhaps even our sacred calling, to take whatever life has handed us and make something new, something that wouldn't have existed if not for the fire, the genetic mutation, the sick baby, the accident.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest. To live fully is to be always in no-man's-land.

No matter how good you are, how brave you are or anything, it comes down to that car so many times. Not every time, but so many times.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

When you look back at your life, I bet you can think of quite a few situations that happened, things that seemed like setbacks, but of which you can now say, "I'm so glad that happened!" Everything happens for a reason. I believe that with my whole heart.

I don't want to give up anymore. I want to be strong and stand for what I think even in the face of those most spiteful.

You never have the wind with you — either it is against you or you're having a good day.

The Taliban cannot militarily defeat us—but we can defeat ourselves.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

You can't prevent mistakes, but you can solve problems graciously.

Things that appear to be obstacles turn out to be desirable in the long haul

in the course of our lives, the evil which in itself we seek most to shun, and which, when we are fallen into, is the most dreadful to us, is oftentimes the very means or door of our deliverance, by which alone we can be raised again from the affliction we are fallen into...

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

Somehow, at some point, I'd developed a serious problem. I'd started handling every single situation exactly the way it shouldn't be handled.

longer in extended bad weather. For passengers in steerage—scores

Pollyanna's philosophy about finding something to be glad about in any situation is an excellent way to go through life. If there were ever a good time to play the Glad Game, then today would undoubtedly qualify. But no matter what situation or setback you find yourself in, I urge you to ask yourself this question: What is there to be glad about?

This is when I learned that mistakes are interesting and began planning a life that contained several of them.

innovation and creativity are greatest when we are not at our best

How to stay afloat amid that ocean of rejection is the second essential quality in moving others. I call this quality "buoyancy.