Quotes About Adversity

I did infer, however, that submitting to melancholy would undo the labors of those who had come before me, that I had an obligation to resist instead of giving in. I rose unsteadily to my feet, aware of my shackles, but determined to somehow overcome them.

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

The whipping post is a strange place to gather fresh confidence and courage, yet that's what it gave me, and in that dark cell I left behind many fears and misgivings.

Looking back at it, it seems to me that I was blown here and there like a dead leaf whipped about by the autumn winds till at last it finds lodgment in some cozy fence corner. When I left school at fourteen I was as unsophisticated as a boy could be; I knew no more of the world and its strange ways than the gentle, saintly woman who taught me my prayers in the convent. Before me twentieth birthday I was on the docket of criminal court, on trial for burglary.

It only took a couple of trips Downtown to realize that we had met the enemy and he was us.

Courage, real bravery, is being afraid and doing what you need to do anyway.

I can't believe we survived that." "I can't believe how you can fight." "I was scared to death. I hardly knew what I was doing." Jason shook his head. "I'd hate to fight you when you did know what you were doing.

She knew what hate was, had heard of the things hate could cause people to do, but had never heard hate spoken so clearly, had never heard it directed at her. Fear threatened to paralyze her, but Kira remembered her father's calm face, her mother's determination, and let some anger build in her to help her think.

If something really bad is going to happen, I want it to be while I'm trying to get something important done, not while I'm running.

Let me tell you something. Folks never know what they can do until they really have to, and then like as not they discover there's a lot more in them than they ever thought.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience…. When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. BRIAN ADAMS

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. —WINSTON CHURCHILL (1874–1965)

airborne to knock my hat off. He and the others

If you ain't got no choice, be brave. -Dirk Johnson

leaders are born in crises and accidents happen when you least expect them.

school. No problem, I thought, until my

Failures can happen to anyone — it is how you deal with it that makes the difference.

With the right attitude, a failure can be converted into a lesson and a stepping-stone for future success.

was God's grace in these dark circumstances that drew me closer to Him.

No matter how hard it seems in that moment, or how bleak the future looks, time will move you forward against your will.

Somewhere a True Believer is training to kill you. He is training with minimum food or water, in austere conditions, day and night. The only thing clean on him is his weapon, and he made his web gear, He doesn't worry about hat workout to do - his ruck weighs what it weighs, his runs end when the enemy stops chasing him. The True Believer doesn't care how hard it is; he only knows that he wins or he dies. He doesn't go home at 1700; he is home. He knows only the cause.

Three Sips of Gin,

Gunfights aren't static events and perfecting the skill of shooting while moving could mean the difference between life and death.