Quotes About Adversity

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

I really didn't have any childhood. When you don't know where you are going to sleep for the night.. or find food.. you can't think with the mind of a child. You have to think with the mind of a man.

How long does it take for a broken spirit to kill a body that has food, water and shelter?

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

With the stones we cast at them, geniuses build new roads with them.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Turn the other cheek too often and you get a razor through it.

Better to suffer than to die.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

No evil is without its compensation ... it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss, that troubles us.

That which does not kill me makes me stronger.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

Let me embrace thee sour adversity for wise men say it is the wisest course.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.

Looking for Silver Linings Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments.

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

Life is hard. Next to what?

Bear and forbear.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!