Quotes About Adversity

I'm not frightened, merely giddy. I must break down the distance between the enemy and myself. Confront him horizontally.

Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.

Conflict is one of the most difficult situations we face because it thrusts us out of our comfort zone.

No one knows while experiencing their darkest hour that some day they may use that very experience to illuminate the ways for others. Nothing is ever wasted

Sometimes all that's left is faith

We don't always get what we want, but often something better happens and we become the person we always wanted to be.

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength" (Philippians 4:11–13).

Most survivors are cope-aholics, people who cope with whatever is thrown at them without reliance on others. They do not seek sympathy for their pain and feel undeserving if it is offered. They are especially adverse to sympathy from others.

Our deepest, most painful wounds not only leave us with scars that we bear forever, but also, if we make our peace with them, leave us wiser, stronger, more sensitive than we otherwise would have been had we not been afflicted with them.

Eventually I did that, but it took a lot of twists and turns, and there were a year or two there where I was living with no money at all - no home, no car, no nothing. I was living in somebody's garage in Los Angeles at that point - for a year.

the greatest blessing can come wrapped up in the worst trouble

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot.

Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.

If you want to be contentious wait until you learn what you have to contend with. It works better that way.

Mr. Cramer is constantly leaping at the throat of evil and finding himself holding on for dear life to the tip of its tail.

The fat was in the fire, and the problem was dodging the spatters.

But if and when I find myself up a tree with a circle of man-eating tigers crouching on the ground below, and a squad of beavers starting to gnaw at the trunk of the tree, the sight of Saul approaching would be absolutely beautiful. I have never seen him fazed.

I can dodge folly without backing into fear. - Nero Wolfe in "The Doorbell Rang

but I knew from long experience that you never knew when you were going to run up against someone with as many feet as a centipede and all of them reluctant.

To be broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

Being broke is not a disgrace, it is only a catastrophe.

We were already living in some kind of Hell in this strange place of broken beauty.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea.