Quotes About Adversity

You're allowed to be sad and angry. You're not allowed to give up.

The situations and people in our life that cause us the most trouble are also our greatest teachers.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

They fought the Indians and then they fought the British, comprising 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army. They were the great pioneers— Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, and Davy Crockett among them— blazing the westward trails into Kentucky , Ohio, Tennessee, and beyond, where other Scots-Irishmen like Kit Carson picked up the slack.

We been abandoned, Lieutenant. We been kicked off the edge of the goddamn cliff. They don't know how to fight it, and they don't know how to stop fighting it.

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

It's no disgrace to be black, but it's often very inconvenient.

In modern civilization, there's three things you can do: Get a job, become a criminal, or lift your head up high and blow your brains out. Life ain't easy anymore.

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

We all lose sometimes. Life's plenty easy when you're winning. It's what you do when you're down. That's the real test.

Everything is a risk. That's what's hitting so many people so hard right now, here, as we approach May 2020. They didn't know that they didn't know.

I'll tell you what I think of Alaska. It's neither heaven nor hell, but it'll make a man of you. It will test you and try you and tell you what you're made of," he shrugged. "And then when you think it has taken all you have, it will give something back that more than makes up for it.

I am a positive person and do not allow things to get on top of me.

Like a football being held underwater, as soon as you let go, it rises to the surface. And like the grass pressing up through the cracks in a city pavement, your resilience and clarity is always doing its best to find its way through the paving slabs of your superstitious thinking.

Attack and adversity contribute to national cohesion in a way that success and affluence do not

a man must meet his enemies, doesn't he? And what kind of enemy must he meet foremost if not the inconvenient of them all?

a man must meet his enemies, doesn't he? And what kind of enemy must he meet foremost if not the the most inconvenient of them all?

Everything is permitted in a fight with the devil.

If all our foes were like Al Ghouti, we would never win,' he said thoughtfully. 'On the other hand, if all our foes were like him, victory would no longer be necessary.

When people say that school prepares children for the real world, what's implied is that it is the difficult parts of school (doing things you don't want to do, forced interaction with peers, following rules that you don't believe in) that are important. What's implied is that the real world is going to be an unhappy place and that being treated unfairly by people is a part of life.

After bad times come good times or returns but always sunshine will be shine between the rains and storms

Not every road we follow will bring us to a palace or castle.

Even when our Life is Full of Problems there will always be a Little bit sunshine of Happiness.

A Tree with strong roots and Branches will overcome every Storm and will have every Year new Leaves.