Quotes About Adversity

When we suffer, God empowers us to face the worst and become our best.

I felt the presence of the Holy Spirit had entered us. But after the baptism everything got worse.

I know from experience that you spend your tears on the big hurts, not the little day-to-day jabs." -Star

My father-in-law once wrote a best-seller entitled All You Can Do Is All You Can Do—But All You Can Do Is Enough. I love that title. You see, we can't control the rain; we can pull out an umbrella. We can't control a harsh word leveled at us; we can return with a soft answer.

Are you talking to me, or chewing on bricks? Either way you're gonna lose teeth!

You can be successful even when you're getting pounded.

When you're under fire, when it all changes and goes the other way, a lot of guys get panicky and lose their clarity, because they're all geared up for winning. But I love adversely - it's where I see a chance to prove myself to myself.

Your own mind is your toughest competitor. Playing against another team or opponent can be hard, but fighting your own self-doubt can be even harder.

Learning to accept the risk is a trading skill—the most important skill you can learn. Yet

The winners have attained a mind-set—a unique set of attitudes—that allows them to remain disciplined, focused, and, above all, confident in spite of the adverse conditions. As a result, they are no longer susceptible to the common fears and trading errors that plague everyone else.

How do we remain disciplined, focused, and confident in the face of constant uncertainty?

There is no more delicate matter to take in hand, nor more dangerous to conduct, nor more doubtful in its success, than to be a leader in the introduction of changes. For he who innovates will have for enemies all those who are well off under the old order of things, and only lukewarm supporters in those who might be better off under the new.

The Key is to be like a Duck, Smooth and unruffled on the surface but paddling furiously underneath!

Strength is not created by adversity; it is merely awakened by it.

Anyone can suffer but it takes a stout heart to suffer well. Pippin never loses his simple Hobbit sense, nor does he succumb to the temptation to use his suffering as an excuse to sully himself

In later life most good things happen very slowly; only bad things tend to happen fast.

Bad things happen fast: The brakes give out; the stroller goes bouncing down the steps; the lump of gristle sticks in your throat (and sticks). Good things are all about progress: effort, expectation, and desire, and something evermore about to be, as the poet says.

Awakening does not mean a change in difficulty, it means a change in how those difficulties are met.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #14: BEING BRAVE MEANS BEING AFRAID AND GOING AHEAD WITH IT ANYWAY.

So being brave doesn't mean you're not scared, then." "It means you're scared, and you do what you have to do in spite of it.

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #12: IN THE FACE OF OVERWHELMING ODDS, DO ONE SMART THING AT A TIME.

This is not a happy story, it doesn't begin or end well, and the middle is equally dreadful.

Mark Galeotti

the turkey shoot back in