Quotes About Adversity

I was tired of losing things. No, not losing, having things taken from me. I couldn't handle any more of the universe's thievery. — Lyric

Michael Buckley

Michael Buckley

Michael Buckley

Michael Buckley

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but paddling like the dickens underneath.

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath

Vivian had found trouble early and often, and discovered that instead of it scaring her, it only made her feel more alive.

They'd lived their lives on tightropes, never knowing where the next paycheck was coming from or if one was coming at all, their personal lives a mishmash of backstage affairs and dressing room brawls endured for the brief heady adrenaline rush brought by the orchestra's overture and glare of white lights.

Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster," as Friedrich Nietzsche wrote. "And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." Walter

You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming

If you scald your arse, Sweetland's mother used to say, you got to learn to sit on your blisters. He said, "I got what was coming to me, I expect.

Either we die here in the snow or we die fighting. I prefer the hard way.

You weren't distracted by evil things, for the enemy knows that you have been converted from them. He drew you away by legitimate pleasures.

He came to love adversity as an unsentimental but beloved teacher.

Two things, and two things only, can come from fear: courage or hatred.

Good. You realize what temptation can do to even the strongest virtue?

We grow angry at our suffering; we resent and complain and make others pay for our unhappiness.

garden. I have been defeated,

In time of crisis it is better to do any intelligent thing quickly than to hesitate, searching for the ideal.

But if you dig yourself into a hole early on, you will face an uphill battle from that point forward.

How successful you are is really a function of how well you deal with failure—and how much you learn from it.