Quotes About Adversity

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

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Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.

believe everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so you can appreciate them when they're right. You believe lies so you can learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. —Marilyn Monroe

minutes?" Jason was on the edge, and I was falling over the cliff with him. I wasn't sure I could handle everything in one day after all. I would've preferred another day of everyone kicking my ass and getting hit by

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If you have strength of character, you can use that as fuel to not only be a survivor but to transcend simply being a survivor, use an internal alchemy to turn something rotten and horrible into gold.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

Father said conflict develops the character

I have often told you that I am that little fish who swims about under a shark and, I believe, lives indelicately on its offal. Anyway, that is the way I am. Life moves over me in a vast black shadow and I swallow whatever it drops with relish, having learned in a very hard school that one cannot be both a parasite and enjoy self-nourishment without moving in worlds too fantastic for even my disordered imagination to people with meaning.

Nothing could have survived our life.

If you always do the easy and comfortable thing, life ends up being difficult and uncomfortable. If you do the difficult and uncomfortable thing, however, life ends up being easy and comfortable.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

Things joined by profit, when pressed by misfortune and danger, will cast each other aside.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember — the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.

If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.

Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.

You don't drown by falling in water; you only drown if you stay there.

Optimisme yang sesungguhnya adalah menyadari masalah serta mengenali pemecahannya. Mengetahui kesulitan dan yakin bahwa kesulitan itu dapat diatasi. Melihat yang negatif, tetapi menekankan yang positif. Menghadapi yang terburuk, namun mengharapkan yang terbaik. Mempunyai alasan untuk menggerutu, tapi memilih untuk tersenyum.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." —Phillips Brooks