Quotes About Adversity

People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them. But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

But when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

It wasn't even one of those stoic pimples that goes quietly when you pop it; this one was cystic and painful and had roots that seemed to extend into my brain.

when you're winning, it makes them feel like they're losing or, worse yet, that maybe they should've tried to do something too, but now it's too late. And since they didn't, they want to stop you. You can't let them.

It's been proven that writers are funnier when they are demoralized.

Which is why you need the tiniest bit of bravery. People get scared when you try to do something, especially when it looks like you're succeeding. People do not get scared when you're failing. It calms them.

Sports movies had brainwashed me into the belief that when the chips are down the most, that is when success is the most inevitable.

that even while caught in a stormy sea, they must keep dancing, dance on through the rolling waves so that when they finally surged up toward the open air, their grace and joy would light up the world.

Adversity is the tempering of one's mettle. Without it, we cannot know any true meaning in our accomplishments.

The same is true of the misfortune, failures, and disappointments of life. If we understand the importance of manure, we understand that nothing is truly wasted. Everything can be useful if correctly applied. Therefore, even the bad things in life may become fertilizer that will help us grow and become strong.

Atmink: turi ne tik apsik?sti su visais sunkumais, privalai juos k?sti šypsodama, kad niekas nepasteb?t? n? p?dsako kart?lio.

Atmink viena: likimo mes negalim ?veikti, bet galim jam nesipriešinti ir gauti iš to visa, kas ?manoma.

Kart? mokydamas, kaip tapyti lotos? mano tapybos mokytojas ponas Vu aiškino: Ši graži g?l? auga iš nešvarum?. Mes sakome: "išaug?s iš purvo, bet nesusitep?s", taip ir kai kurie žmon?s gyvena blogio apsuptyje, bet išlieka dori.

The only way through this reality is to fight.

Rah-e-talab mein girey hote munh ke bal hum bhi Shikasta-paayi ne apni hamein sambhaal liya

If only you look, you'll find that right in that hole is something you've desperately needed to complete your journey successfully. And you wouldn't have found it if you hadn't fallen in that hole.

The bad event gave you the strength you needed in your foundation to make possible the next wonderful thing in your life.

An interviewer once asked me if I could sum up everything I know about psychology in ten words or less. I said, "Hell, I can do it in two words: People cope.

i had no money for the bus, so i walked. it was an incredible distance. a horse would get tired galloping there. when birds flew there, it was called migration.

Mijn leven heeft maar één as: thuis en op school, zoals mensen met een gebroken wervelkolom zijn ingemetseld in een gipskorset.

Sigur c? lumea româneasc? este cum este ÅŸi are miturile ei fundamentale, care nu sunt MioriÅ£a ÅŸi MeÅŸterul Manole, ci capra vecinului ÅŸi povestea din iad, nu? În cazanul românilor, unde niciun român nu iese la suprafa?? fiindc?-l trag ceilalÅ£i de picioare. AÅŸa c? diavolii ÅŸomeaz?.

Life is a passage ; trees fall. Tread on the evil, put down my misery!

just because someone is eating the ashes of your protagonist doesn't mean you stop telling the story.

Go into hard things quickly, eagerly, then retreat.