Quotes About Adversity

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

Only the devil wishes everyone to be his friend.

Break-ups are survivable. It´s the aftershocks that get you.

To want your child to remain innocent whilst toughening up enough to survive This Life is entirely contradictory, but, as far as I can tell, an almost-universal parental desire. It

It reads 'BLYTH MINERS WIVES. Thatcher snatched our milk, now she wants our daily bread.

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

A myslí si pÃ…â"¢itom: V pohodÄ›, žádnej problém, kunda, kunda.

Then again, the world had ended. So maybe it was time for adults to talk about building castles again.

I want to tell my granddaughter the lesson of the book. The lesson that they can beat you, but they cannot defeat you. I must tell her that.

The question of how one survived is simply not asked. It is not polite. How one survived is best not discussed.

Coffee will get you through a time of no money. Money will never get you through a time of no coffee.

You can take a road that gets you to the stars, I can take a road that will see me through.

We're an easy target for remarks about crossing the border and turning the clock back fifteen years, or a hundred. We're a state that's known for pineapples and cane toads, old bad attitudes and the brain-addling heat that comes from the Tropic of Capricorn sitting right across our middle. We're that kind of state - hot and steamy, unlovely and unloved, far too much fodder here for metaphors about festering and putrefaction.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

In my experience, whatever happens clings to us like barnacles on the hull of a ship, slowing us slightly, both uglifying and giving us texture. You can scrape all you want, you can, if you have money, hire someone else to scrape, but the barnacles will come back or at least leave a blemish on the steel.

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...

Pain helps us grow stronger.

in rock'n'roll it wasn't the winners but the losers who made for the most compelling stories.

Looking back on my childhood now, there's a sort of glow to my reminiscences. It's like my memory has blocked out most of the bad stuff. I just remember all those glorious sunny days and good times. You need to have good memories from your past. You never know when you're going to have to depend on those memories just to see you through a bad patch in your adult life.

As our good friend Ron Geesin was fond of announcing, 'The next dance will be a fight.

recognize certain traits that seem to be in every champion: passion, commitment, confidence, pride in performance, high standards of excellence, relentlessness, perseverance, and the ability to perform in adverse circumstances.

Finally, your attitude is critical to success. Having a positive attitude can have a tremendous effect on how you react and respond to challenges, successes, and failures. And attitude is directly affected by expectations. If you expect things to be difficult, it will always be easier to solve problems, overcome adversity, and have an enthusiastic energy about how you go about and enjoy your work.