Quotes About Adversity

On his eighteenth day in the tiger cage, Robert Stoney began to lose hope of emerging unscathed.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down.

For every bad thing in life, there are more good things to tip the balance.

A scrip on my back, and a staff in my hand, I march on in haste through an enemy's land; The road may be rough, but it cannot be long; And I'll smooth it with hope, and I'll cheer it with song.

I must spin good ghosts out of my hope to oppose the hordes at my window. If those who look in see me condescend to barricade the door, they will know too much and crowd in to overcome me.

It is hope which makes the shipwrecked sailor strike out with his arms in the midst of the sea, though no land is in sight.

Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them.

Wherever there's hope there's a trial.

Hope regards problems, small or large, as opportunities.

Darkness does not leave us easily as we would hope.

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on.

If the expedition had failed, which it might well have done with all hope centered in just one plane, I should still be trying to pay back my obligations.

You have to find a way to not become bitter and live within the parameters of the situation and laugh your way through it…and you hope for a better day for the next generation.

That is what Americans do. We face a challenge - no matter how great - because we know that on the other side there is always hope.

They say I need to be seasoned; they say I need to be stewed. They say, 'We need to boil all the hope out of him -- like us -- and then he'll be ready.'

By sharing an experience, or creating an experience that we all go through where the character survives - though not easily, I always say that it's victory at a price - does give people hope.

And I hope she does not live in a dark world. Because even the most terrible loss doesn't have to make you darker; it can make you deeper.

Tears won't help me right now. They'll just make me weaker.

When hopeful and hopeless come together, both will learn great things from each other: Hopeful will learn the horror of being hopeless and the hopeless will learn the beauty of being hopeful!

Endure every hardship with hope.

She was bruised from crashing so many times, but she hadn't lost her hunger for flight.

The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.

Life is cold, but I will put on my clothes and wear my shoes