Quotes About Adversity

You get yourself into more scrapes than a pat of butter," she said.

Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought. It feels as if someone has taken his head and shaken it. Words are turning to mush and he can see no plausible way of getting through this. Don't fall apart, he tells himself, not here, not now. Hold it together.

You were laughing at where I work." "So? You do!" "Yes, because I work there. I'm laughing in the face of adversity, you're just laughing in my face!

to become exceptional, a Cartier-Bresson, a Capa or a Brandt, would require toil, rejection & struggle

Don't they appreciate how hard it is, staying decent, keeping your head on straight when so much is happening to you and your life is so full and eventfull?

Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with her sister in a caravan in Filey while her parents drank steadily and looked out at the rain, a sort of harsh experiment in the limits of human proximity.

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

Max, for some people there are no victories, just alternate forms of losing.

The world's the hardest metal there is. You have to hammer it into the shape you want and often it'll break your hand just to try, but if you're the one holding the hammer, you've got a simple choice: to hammer or give up. It's better to let the hammer fall. You never know what might be waiting for you in the steel.

St Augustine had this to say about pressure: 'To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world: war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures, and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendor. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure, but does not complain. For it is the friction which polishes him. It is pressure which refines and makes him noble.

That was the way with Moldenke, a brightly burning candle with a shortened wick, destined to burn low and give off gas.

The Jelly is apparently rising behind me. I could sit here and wait for it to cover me or move on, I don't know. Now that I have a few feelings to consider, and attitudes, decisions are more difficult. I suppose I'll step wherever I see a dry spot. Whenever The Jelly nips at my heels, I'll take a forward step. I'll get along.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." —John Wayne

The pattern is clear: dissent, lose, and leave (or be forced out).

Finished off and washed up before your time- But you will never run a pub. You will never own a shop- Instead, you will have your revenge- That is how you shall live- In place of a life, revenge.

There will always be times when we get beaten, said Bill Shankly. There will always be times when we lose. But the important thing is what we take away from that beating, what we learn when we lose. Because we'll always learn more from a loss than a win. So remember that and learn that, lads.

They hate me" I tell him. "Despise me. And they'll hate you too. Despise you. But we'll be here long after they're all gone.

But it's over. It's over and you know it- No League Championships. No FA Cups. No European Cups- The roar and the whistle. The applause and the adoration- Finished forever. Second best. Forever.

Losers break the rules. There's no point in obeying them because if you obey the unwritten rules of civility, you're going to lose anyway. So why not just do what you can?' - Zachary Karabell

Lessons in life are context specific. Contexts are never the same. If there are no lessons you can use does that mean there are actually no lessons

Optimism is not a personality trait; it is a strategy for coping with your lot.