Quotes About Adversity

You need discipline most, when it's hardest to muster.

The Marine transformation is one of American life's storied tests.

Let the black flower blossom as it may!

Hope was all that stood between them and death.

fluidity of the sea, not the rigidity of irresistible law, characterizes human conduct, especially in the midst of a calamity.

Custer wrote, "I often think I would greatly prefer to cast my lot among those of my people adhered to the free open plains rather than submit to the confined limits of a reservation, there to be the recipient of the blessed benefits of civilization, with its vices thrown in without stint or measure.

Awfulness can happen at any time. That's what's so awful.

It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

For there to be pain, there has to be kindness. For darkness to standout there has to be the sun. You can't have one without the other, and both have their uses. So even if you stumble and make mistakes, that's not useless. Think of it as fertilizer, sure it feels like crap, but it will help you grow!" ~Kyoko Honda

Everytime you fall down or take the wrong path, it isn't wasted. You will surely develop and grow over time.

It's okay...for me to be here...it's okay. Even if I'm like this.

I know. Just like there are kind places- I know. I know I haven't made it out of this yet. It's not over. It will come back again and again. The crushing injustice will keep harassing me. It will try to swallow me up. I hate this... it's hard... but even so, I'm done with looking down. Your life is yours, and yours alone.

I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.

Sometimes it feels like the whole world is conspiring to destroy my house... " - Shigure Sohma

Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but it must be awful for kids who don't get along with anybody. We're different from our parents, a completely different species from our teachers. And kids who are one grade apart you are in a different world altogether. In other words, we're basically surrounded by enemies and have to make it on our own.

If the old man looked at straight lines to keep his act together, I was going to stare at curved lines and go down in flames.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

Nobody travels on the road to success without a puncture or two.

Throughout the thirty years of our life together the authorities have given us no respite. They were after us all the time. If we published a magazine, they closed it down. If we started a project they prevented us from carrying it through. If we established an association they told us we were breaking the laws and banned its activities. Now they were driving us out of the country.

life is very hard. The only people who really live are those who are harder then life itself

Life is a snake. They are the same, Firdaus. If the snake realises you are not a snake, it will bite you. And if life knows you have no sting, it will devour you.

Setiap orang akan mati, Firdaus. Saya akan mati, dan kamu akan mati. Dan yang penting ialah bagaimana untuk hidup sampai mati." "Kau harus lebih keras dari hidup itu, Firdaus. Hidup itu amat keras. Yang hanya hidup ialah orang-orang lebih keras dari hidup itu sendiri." "Hidup adalah ular. Keduanya sama, Firdaus. Bila ular itu menyadari kau bukan ular dia akan menggigitmu. Dan bila hidup itu tahu kau tidak punya sengatan, ia akan menghancurkanmu.

I always had an attitude that whatever came my way, I'd overcome it. I wouldn't let it hold me back.

A friend of mine who passed through a most severe trial, when I discussed it with him, he said simply, if it's fair, it isn't a trial.