Quotes About Adversity

Well I certainly have learned and I hope I'm moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

we all suffer in our different ways from being prisoners of birth.

The sign of a great man is how you handle defeat. - Old Jack

Life is far too short to bear malice, I always say. You play the cards you're dealt, as I did once with Richard Harris at Shepperton Studios. The fact that I lost every penny I had -- he wouldn't play house rules -- and that he wouldn't even give me the fare home matters not a fig and is now so blurred in my memory it is hardly worth mentioning.

By the time I was twenty, I had lived through a Hungarian Fascist dictatorship, German military occupation, the Nazis' "Final Solution," the siege of Budapest by the Soviet Red Army, a period of chaotic democracy in the years immediately after the war, a variety of repressive Communist regimes, and a popular uprising put down at gunpoint.

However, when there is a major setback, the counterattack collapses. When this happens, they often fall apart and become very depressed.

an old attitude quote by Aldous Huxley, "It's not what happens to you, it's what you do with what happens to you.

Attitude allows you to see the possibilities when opportunity strikes -- because it often shows up in the form of adversity. How well do you spot opportunity?

Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

If all it takes is an angry stranger to ruin your day, what are you going to do if something really serious happens? Why give someone else control of your life like that?

A cornerstone of the Toyota Way is "challenge

Rough waters are truer tests of leadership. In calm water, every ship has a good captain. —Swedish proverb

Calamities and opportunities all jumbled up together and no sure way to distinguish one from the other.

Life's a story don't you doubt. Bad times give you something to talk about.

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse. (Apr 2007 Gen Conf)

No misfortune is so bad that whining about it won't make it worse.

When we join The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we board the Good Ship Zion and sail with her wherever she goes until she comes into that millennial port. We stay in the boat, through squalls and stills, through storms and sunburn, because that is the only way to the promised land.

In such times as we are in, whether the threats be global or local or in individual lives, I too pray for the children. Some days it seems that a sea of temptation and transgression inundates them, simply washes over them before they can successfully withstand it, before they should have to face it. And often at least some of the forces at work seem beyond our personal control. Well, some of them may be beyond our control, but I testify with faith in the living God that they are not beyond His.

A foundation in Christ was and is always to be a protection in days "when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you." In such days as we are now in--and will more or less always be in--the storms of life "shall have no power over you... because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall." (Helaman 5:12)

Love, like individuals, is tested by the flame of adversity. If we are faithful and determined, it will temper and refine us, but it will not consume us. Enjoy what you now have. Be a disciple of Christ. Live worthily of marriage even if it doesn't come soon. And cherish it with all your heart when it does.

Success," Honda said, "can be achieved only through repeated failure and introspection. In fact, success represents one percent of your work, which results only from the ninety-nine percent that is called failure.

Difficult situations breed astonishing results.

It's not fair." "No, it's not," I hear someone say, her footsteps barely more than a whisper against the floor. "But then again, a lot in life isn't fair." The woman is concealed in the shadows. "It's how you handle yourself in such situations and what you learn from them that will define you.