Quotes About Adversity

after visiting the Santa Anita Assembly Center, quoted a small girl she had overheard talking to her mother: "I am tired of Japan, Mother. Let's go back to America.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

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not only did Horace Greeley, in less than a month's time, lose his wife, the election, his money, his mind, and his own life, but he also became the only presidential candidate of a major political party to receive no electoral votes.

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and Satan, who laboureth to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

Discouragements, then, must come from ourselves and from Satan, who labors to fasten on us a loathing of duty.

And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

We laugh & it pits the world against us.

I'm not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn't this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?

we laugh and it pits the world against us, we laugh, and we've got nothing left to lose

Every story has its chapter in the desert, the long slide from kingdom to kingdom through the wilderness, where you learn things, where you're left to your own devices.

People fall down and stay down

and they're trying to drive you into the ground, to see if anything walks away.

We can do anything. It's not because our hearts are large, they're not, it's what we struggle with

Already today I hit you twice. Once I knocked the wind out of you, once I knocked the consciousness out of you. Here you are back the third time. You call that smart?

And that is how he would describe courage: pretending to be brave. Fearlessness is stupidity. Courage is not letting the fear defeat you.

Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It's learning to overcome it.

We do learn from experience and may not make the same mistakes again, but there is a whole new pickle jar of fresh ones just lying in wait for us to trip up and fall into. The secret is to accept this and not to beat yourself up when you do make new ones.

WISDOM ISN'T ABOUT NOT MAKING MISTAKES BUT ABOUT LEARNING TO ESCAPE AFTERWARD WITH OUR DIGNITY AND SANITY INTACT.

Wisdom isn't about not making mistakes, but about learning to escape afterwards with our dignity and sanity intact.

My image was all daring deeds, until my swash began to buckle a bit

Richard Townshend Bickers

Sometimes when things get taken away from you it feels like there's a hole at your centre where you can feel the wind blow through, that's sure.