Quotes About Adversity

On n'est pas courageux si on ne connaît pas la peur.

There have been seasons of my life when rejection rained down. And then there have been typhoons. Kimberly Rossi's Diary

Though adversity is the fertile soil in which the human spirit best grows, we loathe it still. I do not see how it can be otherwise, for no rational being seeks out pain and misfortune. Still, I cannot help but wonder if it is not somehow wrong to enjoy the fruit but curse the tree.

We do not succeed in spite of our obstacles and challenges. We succeed precisely because of them.

We can't let crazy people dictate our lives.

There will always be people like that. Don't give them your time or your sanity.

What a peculiar alchemist is time—transforming painful experiences into comedy.

I believe that, for the most part, we don't succeed in spite of our hardships but precisely because of them.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Usually life's greatest gifts come wrapped in adversity.

Mr. Vey, you cannot be stuffed into a locker without your consent." Dallstrom said, which may be the dumbest thing ever said in a school. "You should have resisted. That's like blaming someone who was struck by lightning for getting in the way.

they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

This world will try to beat you down. Only laughter can counteract that. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often.

Sometimes life drives you to do entirely new things, things you never believed you could do.

This world will try to beat you down. Laughter is ammunition. Resupply often.'

the only thing you can be sure of in this life is that sooner or later everything goes wrong.

And remember this. No victory is certain. No situation is hopeless. When you find yourselves in a hopeless situation, change the rules.

Richard Porter

I was kicked out of school because of my attitude. I was not assimilating. So I went to work, taking any jobs I could get.

When you ain't got no money, you gotta get an attitude.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

Mudbone: See I've lived through hard times before. People talk about these as hard times. Hard times was way back. They didn't even have a year for it. Just called it "Hard Times." It was dark all the time. I think the sun came out on Wednesday. And it you didn't have your ass up early. You missed it. So I happened to be out there one Wednesday… and the sun hit me right in the face. I grabbed a bunch of it and rubbed it all over myself.