Quotes About Adversity

Good luck frees many men from punishment, but no man from fear.

Instead of meeting misfortune with groans and tears, I will call upon the faculty especially provided to deal with it.

It is no light thing, said he, to endure poverty uncomplainingly; and a difficult thing to bear wealth without becoming arrogant.

We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

If anything ail a man," says Thoreau, "so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even … he forthwith sets about reforming—the world.

We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

It is understandable that those who fail should incline to blame the world for their failure.

The discarded and rejected are often the raw material of a nation's future.

growth comes only when you consciously push yourself onto foreign and uncomfortable-feeling sections of wall.

restrictions create frustrations!

Losing your job is like having your identity stolen, like having what defined you run through a paper shredder. After a while the despair gets you, and it gets you good.

Turning a cheek never helped a man advance in this world.

You must be able to create in the middle of things, or else you will not create. You must learn to take whatever practical and psychological actions are necessary to combat the anticreating forces that surround you and live within you.

You can be as mad as a mad dog at the way things went, you can curse the fates, but when it comes to the end, you have to let go.

I've not ceased being fearful, I've gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says: turn back, turn back, you'll die if you go too far.

Both dogs and people are nicer after hitting bottom.

No, things are not okay, but I must compartmentalize. Just because there's a problem in one life-box doesn't mean it has to create a problem in all my other life-boxes.

Sometimes you only get one chance at something. Sometimes that's a good thing too. When that door slams shut on the thing you couldn't live without, what happens next is when the read education begins. You have to figure out how to make some peace with it all, how to have an interior life you can live with. Digging down deep is really never a bad thing in the end, but it will flat-out kick your ass while it's happening.

Even the clearest skies become cloudy.

it's only a mistake if it kills you or if you fail to learn from it

Hell of a thing." Bad Jacket shook his head. "He survives that warehouse fire only to fall down a flight of stairs.

Henceforth, whenever we are threatened with being cast adrift upon love's transcendent, golden shore, I want you to slap my face.

Talent is useful, but always keep your dagger sharp.