Quotes About Adversity

The best laid schemes o' Mice an' Men, Gang aft agley. An' lea'e us nought but grief an' pain, For promis'd joy! (To A Mouse)

During the assault on Fallujah, Marine commanders intercepted an enemy radio conversation and heard an insurgent say, "We are fighting, but the Marines keep coming. We are shooting, but the Marines won't stop.

He closed with a partial verse from "Sir Andrew Barton," one of the ballads in Percy's Reliques, published in 1765. Barton had been wounded in battle. "Fight on, my men," Sir Andrew sayes, "A little Ime hurt, but yett not slaine; He but lye downe and bleede awhile, And then He rise and fight againe.

They were about to go to war with Uncle Sam. And it broke their hearts.

At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.

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But adversity has a way of strengthening. If it doesn't kill you, you learn things.

Markov nodded and the steel fingers tightened into my shoulders like pliers. Alexei backhanded me with the Glock and a starburst of pain erupted from my other ear. Some days suck. Some days you shouldn't even get out of bed. I said, "Who is Clark Hewitt and why is he so important?

Consequently, children who experience toxic stress have trouble concentrating, controlling impulsive behavior, and following directions.

The first recollection started as a trickle that, as soon as I attempted to block it, found another path to weep through, the way water will always bleed through concrete, no matter how many times you patch it.

I think we got some work done, back at the start, because nobody knew us, nobody bothered us - and we had no money.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

There was always something worse.

Plan for the day when all your plans fail, when those you trust betray you, when your certainty cracks like a rotten egg and you are alone in the storm.

It's the small sins that save you. That's how you survive when all around you are getting their heads sawed off.

Oh, come forth into the storm and rout And be my love in the rain.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

He says the best way out is always through. / And I can agree to that, or in so far / As that I can see no way out but through

Lodged The rain to the wind said, 'You push and I'll pelt.' They so smote the garden bed. That the flowers actually knelt, And lay lodged -- though not dead. I know how the flowers felt.

They are dragged to the withered bracken by the load, And they seem not to break; though once they are bowed So low for long, they never right themselves.

The tree the tempest with a crash of wood Throws down in front of us is not to bar Our passage to our journey's end for good, But just to ask us who we think we are

Posso resumir em três palavras o que aprendi sobre a vida: a vida continua.

Life is too much like a pathless wood Where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs Broken across it, and one eye is weeping From a twig's having lashed across it open.

Grievances are a form of impatience. Griefs are a form of patience.