Quotes About Adversity

The world can't take these smiles away.

You realize that life is short and fragile; and when you are facing walls of water, you understand your own mortality can change and how quickly things could change.

Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

Always make the best of the best, and never make bad worse.

Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult.

Whoever prays for those who hurt him lays the demons low; but he who opposes his affronter is bound to the demons.

I'm not saying we have power over everything in our lives - if that were true, my hair would look so, so different - but I am saying that there's no circumstance in which we are completely powerless.

If an unexpected temptation comes, don't blame the one through whom it came, but seek out the reason. Thus you will find correction for your soul.

You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down.

Don't cry out loud, keep it inside, learn how to hide your feelings. Fly high and proud, and if you should fall, remember you almost had it all.

A master blesses calamity, for the master knows that from the seeds of disaster (and all experience) comes the growth of self.

Know and understand that there will be challenges and difficult times. Don't try to avoid them. Welcome them. Gratefully.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

Even those truths that are painful will ultimately increase my wisdom, undergird my strength, make possible my art.

Outside of these doors, it is the real world. Someone tries to get you to do something wrong, run.

Our disasters have been some of the best things that ever happened to us. And what we swore were blessings have been some of the worst.

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.

The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.

A good nail does not fear being hammered.

The turtle only makes progress when it's neck is stuck out.

Into every life a little rain must fall.

I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.

It takes a special kind of person to fight back.

It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts.