Quotes About Adversity

It wasn't what I was expecting, but like I've always said: if life gives you lemmings, jump off a cliff.

It does no good to run. And it does no good to hide. But I know what it's like. Your brain shuts down, and you follow your instincts. Or, at least, you think you do. But you know what you're really doing? When you flee through the night, or crawl into your little bolt-hole? You know what's really guiding you? Controlling you? Pushing you on? Genre conventions .

Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.

We all have a path to take; sometimes it's hidden under the weeds, so you might have to work a little.

A car can't operate without the mechanical systems working, but it can operate with a few dents and scratches..., you are the same.

There are no tough times, hard knocks, or challenges that aren't laden with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds for those who see them through.

There are angels who dare not tread where you've trod and who find your courage utterly breathtaking.

sometimes in life you must take one step back to take many more forward.

By accepting or even welcoming your challenges, you create opportunities for their gifts to be revealed.

lives are chosen for the challenges they will likely present, or to flip this, for the dreams you will likely have.

But there's no such thing as an unchallenged life. And whether or not a person's challenges are visible to others, or greater or lesser than others may have experienced, doesn't change the fact that they exist.

Don't we already intuitively accept that every dark cloud has a silver lining? And that when you see no such lining, perhaps it's because you have more to learn, not because it isn't there?

Staying the course" should not be confused with clinging to a cursed "how.

The quick reflexes, the calmness in the face of a storm, the ability to think in the midst of danger that most people don't have.

Verily, my life is falling apart and there's not a damn thing I can do about it.

Joyce, you know you can't pick a fight with everyone who has something to say about us, don't you?' 'I know,' she whispered into the darkness. 'There's too many of them, and not enough hours in the day.' 'It's funny,' said Hubert. 'Until me came to this country me went my whole life thinking me was just plain old Hubert Bird and then me come and find that actually me the devil himself.

Mike Greenberg

I can't say 'why me,' Brady. That's one of the big no-can-do's. Because if I do that now that bad stuff has happened to me, why didn't I say it about all the amazing stuff that happened to me before?

The ones who tell you not to fight are the ones you should fear the most.

You can handle anything anybody throws at you

You gotta be prepared for something, pal. No matter how much you think you're doing the right thing, life can still take a wrong turn on you.

And as Dad said to me, 'You can't always stop people from being mean. But you can stop them from making you mean.

The direction of joy isn't always up. Often to be joyful we must go down - down through the noise of racing thoughts, down through swirling chaos of circumstances, down through the deceptive appearances of life, down into the still waters and green pastures of the heart's core.

her self-confidence was one of those markers I've always held up to myself as proof that I had done a decent job as a father, a true indicator that she had grown strong and self-sufficient and would not be buffeted too easily by whatever life threw at her, nor would she shirk those moments when she would have to stand her ground