Quotes About Adversity

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

I have been bent and broken but I hope into better shape.

it the bloody-brinjal-and-bugger-all. Which is

Children were the foot wedged in the closing door, the glimmer of hope that in reincarnation there would be some house to go to, even if one came back as a dog, or a mouse, or a flea that lived on the bodies of men.

In this upside down world, snarls are smiles, ugly is beautiful, and the crippled outwork the able bodied, but tears are the same.

his oar into water that is as thick and angry as boiling paddy.

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.' " "I figured you'd be in.

The pain you are feeling is merely the strike of every hammer blow on the anvil as you are being forged.

After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P's can stunt recovery: (1) personalization - the belief that we are at fault; (2) pervasiveness - the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and (3) permanence - the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever.

Aprendí que el coraje no era la ausencia de miedo, sino el triunfo sobre él... El hombre valiente no es aquel que no siente miedo, sino el que conquista ese miedo". NELSON MANDELA

To be an original one must not only come up with new ideas but also Sherpa those ideas into the wider world, battling skepticism, incomprehension, and outright hostility in the process. . . .

Once in a while the most irritating, disappointing individual in our life shows us our most prominent lesson.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." —ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

God's blessings are not about ease and comfort, but rather about the joy of being a part of God's work, being used by God for God's purposes, and being accompanied by God's presence, particularly in the face of adversity.

Suffering can either destroy us, or it can add meaning to our life.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

more like pleas from nuns about to be shown the facts of life by Bonaparte's grenadiers, than a sailor's concern for his ship.

Everyone has nightmares. They're tough sometimes. You wake up and you get on with things. That's just how it is.

I guess the lesson is, wherever you go, life follows you there, hunts you down, and abducts you (just kidding).

Casement quoted an African proverb: "A man doesn't go among thorns unless a snake's after him—or he's after a snake." He added, "I'm after a snake and please God I'll scotch it.

To survive in this world, you got to be many times a coward but at least once a hero

He had been the person who took. He'd been the one who was taken. And he'd been the one left behind. Next he would find out what it was like to be all three at once.

An ending to my story," he said. "My story's ended ten times already, and yet it never stops. The end keeps coming for me, and yet it takes everyone else. Orphans, friends, commanding officers, I outlast them all.

Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.