Quotes About Adversity

You overcome a problem, not by solving it, but by becoming bigger than the problem.

But out of limitations comes creativity.

We have to use the experience. We can become either bitter or better.

The only way you make it through life is to fight. You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

All of us have a story like that one - some of us more than one. It's part of life and learning. Why, if babies stopped trying to walk the first time they fell down, the whole world would be full of people who crawled.

Death. Fire. Snow. Failure.

Couldn't I just take up juggling fire over a pit of alligators?" Liam muttered. "I think it might be easier.

I don't have to bitch, because Bunny's doing enough for all of us. Clearly Miss Homemaker doesn't find hiking as easy as pie, because she's cursing in time to our footsteps, and instead of hearing left, left, I left my wife and forty-eight kids home in the kitchen in starving' condition with nothing but gingerbread left, left I hear shit, shit, these bugs are like shit, shit. . . .

I did not choose this fight. But now, as I look back, I am filled with gratitude. If someone had to be taken out of the line to fight this battle, I feel gratified to have been the one.

was for a people who had been oppressed not to allow themselves to be beset with hatred for their oppressors. I would have to work to keep my anger toward Irving from evolving into hate. David Irving was not worth it. This was not the

to the children we force to be braver than they should have to be.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures,

After all, we're in the midst of life—well then, we must fight a good fight—and we must become men. —Vincent to Theo, May 31, 1877

But if there's one thing I've found in all my muddled wanderings, it's that we learn from our misfortunes just as much as from the good things that happen to us.

As Abraham Lincoln reportedly put it, "nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

If you have a devil within you, don't hide him but put him in front of your wagon so that he will use up all his strength by pulling you forward.

It was true that I had no idea how to endure being alive and everything that comes with it.

I had lost my job. I was no longer officially a minor historian. Perhaps I was history itself, flailing around in a number of directions, sometimes all of them at the same time.

There are vertical swimmers and horizontal swimmers, she said. I myself have sometimes thought I will become a vertical swimmer. No one says I have to do the third act of my life. It is always nasty. If I become ill in old age, I have not ruled it out.

The only real failure is the failure to try, and the measure of success is how we cope with disappointment.

After the storm the city lies becalmed. It is a sunny morning, still and cold. Branches litter the streets like broken limbs. People clear away the wreckage. They swarm around like ants whose anthill has been scuffed; how doggedly they rebuild their lives.

The measure of our success is how we cope with disappointment.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Women are like tea bags; you never know how strong they are until they're put in hot water. — ELEANOR ROOSEVELT