Quotes About Adversity

He was back at me like a cat, and he swung a hard chunk of wood from one of the smashed chairs. I caught the first one on the shoulder and I cleverly caught the next one right over the left ear. It broke a big white bell in my head, and he side-stepped, grunting for breath, and let me go down. I landed on my side, and he punted me in the belly like Groza trying for one from the mid-field stripe.

Soon we will all eat stones.

The rain comes down, baby, and we've all got sixteen buckets and seventeen holes in the roof.

The wide world is full of likable people who get kicked in the stomach regularly. They're disaster-prone.

Ter que pagar pelos próprios sonhos deve ser o pior dos desesperos.

Afterwards they walked east along Fourteenth. "Dutch cant we go to your room?" "I ain't got no room. The old stiff wont let me stay and she's got all my stuff. Honest if I dont get a job this week I'm goin to a recruiting sergeant an re-enlist.

El infierno, en realidad, es un poderoso estimulante

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail.

Was there no milder way but the Small Pox, The very filth'ness of Pandora's Box?

The first line grabs me by the throat. "Therefore we do not lose heart." Somebody knows how not to lose heart? I'm all ears. For we are losing heart. All of us. Daily. It is the single most unifying quality shared by the human race on the planet at this time. We are losing—or we have already lost—heart.

This is the time for a young man to stop saying, "Why is life so hard?" He takes the hardness as the call to fight, to rise up, take it on.

Until a man learns to deal with the fact that life is hard, he will spend his days chasing the wrong thing, using all his energies trying to make life comfortable, soft, nice, and that is no way for any man to spend his life.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

You were born into a savage war.

Dear friend, this fear is a mighty powerful force.

We often speak of a man who's done this successfully as a "self-made man." The appellation is usually spoken with a sense of admiration, but really it should be said in the same tones we might use of the dearly departed, or of a man who recently lost an arm—with sadness and regret. What the term really means is "an orphaned man who figured how to master some part of life on his own.

You must understand: the unholy trinity Scripture names as the world, our flesh, and the evil one conspire to undermine your character.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

When the going gets tough, the tuff get going.

Do not pray for easy lives my friends, pray to be stronger man!

Great crisis produce great men and great deeds of courage.

We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty

Do not pray for easy times, pray to be stronger. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks.

It is not always easy. Your successes are unheralded -- your failures are trumpeted. I sometimes have that feeling myself. [ Speech at CIA Headquarters , November 28, 1961]