Quotes About Adversity

Never rail at the storms, the furious winds, the biting frosts and snows...Bright days and dark days are both expressions of the great mystery.

Maybe surrender, when it was called for, was the hard part. Not the fight.

E besouro que cai de costas não se levanta nunca mais.

Já que é preciso aceitar a vida, que seja então corajosamente

This reminds me of the old saying about a guy who owned four farms. He lost three of them drawing to inside straights and lost the fourth one when he made it.

Many strokes overthrow the tallest oak.

At length the long-wished-for fall of 1856 arrived — long wished for because I could not be sure of an income adequate to support a wife until I was admitted to the bar, and I could not be admitted to the bar until I was twenty-one.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

It seems unfortunate that strong people are usually so disagreeable and overbearing that no one cares for them. In fact, to be different from your fellow creatures is always a misfortune. The Growleywogs knew that they were disliked and avoided by every one, so they had become surly and unsociable even among themselves.

On the face of it, no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight out of Edwardian drawingrooms into the manifold horrors of the First World War.

If a man has directed his course to great ends there is compensation even in ruin.

this. From what people have told me about her, she'd have given you hell!' 'Yes, she would.' He managed

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Victory is no longer a truth. It is only a word to describe who is left alive in the ruins

As long as you are black, and you're gonna be black till the day you die, no one's gonna call you by your goddamn name. So no matter what you are called, nigger, you just let it roll off your back like water, and you'll make it. Just pretend you're a goddamn piece of furniture. [Said to his chauffeur, Robert Parker, when Parker said he'd prefer to be referred to by his name rather than "boy," "nigger" or "chief."]

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but stand there and take it.

When you face a new challenge, remember the skills, talent, guts and resources that got you through before.

Even when bad things happen, He can use them for good.

Smooth seas don't produce skillful sailors.

Don't hate them," Mama said as if reading Ans's mind. "They'll win if we hate them.

Adversity is the testing ground of our faith. God has to risk losing you forever to your anger and bitterness in order to have you for His true son. Anyone can believe and sing praises on the Temple Mount when the sun is shining, but true praise is sung in the darkest valley when the Accuser tells you to curse God for making you suffer so much pain. If you can still praise your Father's goodness, even in the darkness, then you are His son indeed.

Our faith often grows stronger when we have to defend our beliefs, the same way that patriotism flowers and blooms when our country is threatened.

down lead to nothing but trouble.

Her people could trust God no matter what. Even