Quotes About Adversity

We may never become accustomed to untrue and unjust criticism of us but we ought not to be immobilized by it.

These really are our days, and we can prevail and overcome, even in the midst of trends that are very disturbing. If we are faithful the day will come when those deserving pioneers and ancestors, whom we rightly praise for having overcome the adversities in the wilderness trek, will praise today's faithful for having made their way successfully through a desert of despair and for having passed through a cultural wilderness, while still keeping the faith.

One may be stripped of accustomed luxury so that the malignant mole of materialism may be removed. One may be scorched by humiliation so that pride can be melted away. Whatever we lack will get attention, one way or another.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory.

To be defeated, but not to give in, is victory. - Jósef Pi?sudski

Sometimes, when you fight a war, you become what you are fighting.

Dressed for the minus-thirty-degree temperatures at high altitude (wool underwear, two pairs of wool socks, a wool sweater, a brown leather jacket lined with sheep's wool, and heavy trousers), Roane crossed the cold, fog-ridden airfield and gathered with the other pilots and aircrews in the huge Nissen hut used for briefings.

Without the threat of suffering, we can't experience true joy.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

The measure of a man is not how much he suffers in the test, but how he comes out at the end.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

Just because you find more work and problems on your path than you anticipated doesn't mean that you made a wrong choice or a mistake!

Although we were sent into a failing world, we were not sent to fail.

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering." Hardship is what makes the story of our lives more compelling in the telling. The

Because,' she said, 'when you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave.

I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

When life is viewed as good, a bad day is easily absorbed.

I remember thinking, "How does anyone survive something like this? And if they do, what kind of person comes out the other end?" I didn't know, but throughout that dark time of grief, sorrow, desolation, and complete despair, something in me seemed determined to carry on. Something would come up.

You know, I used to think, 'Life is great, but people suck,' but now I've had to learn the opposite, 'Life sucks, but people are great.

One day I feel I'm on top of the world And the next it's falling in on me I can get back on I can get back on One day I feel I'm ahead of the wheel, And the next it's rolling over me I can get back on I can get back on It's a far cry from the world we thought we'd inherit It's a far cry from the way we thought we'd share it

Neil S. Plakcy

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably havenÂ't been born yet.

I mean, if you give in when you're eighteen and a half, you'll give in for the rest of your life, don't you think?