Quotes About Adversity

There is no coal of character so dead that it will not glow and flame if but slightly turned. Don't blame; only resolve. Life, like music, can by a new setting turn all its discords into harmonies.

Circumstance does not make a man, it reveals him.

There is a saying that when a bird in flight gets tired, it will land on any tree

All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the

Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.

I felt like everyone else had gotten this instruction manual that explained life to them, but somehow I'd just missed it. They all seemed to know exactly what they were doing while I didn't have a clue. That is, until I found drugs and alcohol. Then it was like my world suddenly went from black-and-white to Technicolor.

You don't know what you're going to do in a crisis," said Frieda. "Until it happens.

Even the most difficult things which you think you'll never get over you do get over, and in a trice you find they're behind you and you have to go on. New things await you.

La cosa, si disse, sarebbe passata perché nella vita le cose passano sempre, come in un fiume. Anche quelle difficili che ti sembra impossibile superare, le superi, e in un attimo te le trovi alle spalle. Devi andare avanti. Ti aspettano cose nuove.

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity,decline,disgrace,honor,praise,censure,suffering, and pleasure.They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.

Do not go about complaining how hard it is to live in this world. such behavior is entirely unworthy of a real man.

We'll hear from him somewhere down the road. He says all that training he received in his own personal boot camp has gotten him ready. It's gotten him ready for war. It's a war with people who are trying to destroy kids' lives, says my new friend Nicholas Alahverdian.

For a man who had been in action 120 times by the age of thirty-nine, Nelson was bearing up well,

The Royal Sovereign reeled under the impact, heeling 'two strakes out of the water

It didn't work like that at sea.

Caesar had had trouble with the currents off the English coast. Napoleon would too.

It could not have happened at a worse moment for the Victory.

The manoeuvre was difficult at the best of times. In the dark, it was almost impossible.

The enemy of our country is poverty and hopelessness.

don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. —NADIA COMANECI, Olympic gold medal gymnast

There's a brittleness to life for about 150 million Americans, with a constant risk that sickness, layoffs or a car accident will cause everything to collapse. One in seven Americans lives below the poverty line, a substantially higher rate than in Canada or other OECD countries, and scholars estimate that half of all Americans will at some point slip below the line.

wages and rewards of going with the flow of your programming. The willingness to feel fear and keep going forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing.

Necessity does the work of courage.

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,And none could be unhappy but the great.