Quotes About Adversity

Are you the child of divorce, Tino? Did anybody you know die? Did you ever, once, not have enough to eat?" "No, sir," Tino said, shamed.

This was a problem when he hit the pothole in the shitty road, broke the axle, and got thrown headfirst into the windshield at twenty-five miles an hour.

How resilient did someone have to be to have gone through all of that and still have a laugh that rang through the trees like bells, making them holy?

Denise, the Nazi soldiers in those trucks do not suspect they're about to be outfoxed by two girls." In the stillness before we spring back itno action, Denise looks to me, grinning like mad. She quotes a line from King Kong, one of my favorite movies I watched with Tom. "'Oh no. It wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

Fortune frowns as often as he smiles, and you don't want to be in his line of sight when he does.

Every time she felt her life could not grow stranger, something happened to make her think she had been wrong.

That night they sat up well past dark around the dim flame of a single gas lamp, knowing, I suppose, that going to bed would be an admission that there was no ordinary, everyday explanation for my disappearance, and that when they awoke in the morning, they would have passed into some new era in their lives — the era that began with the unexplained loss of one of their own, and whatever that might mean next for them.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I was hit by a car once on my bike, but I still rode home.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

From the backstabbing co-worker to the meddling sister-in-law, you are in charge of how you react to the people and events in your life. You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. Take control and choose to focus on what is important in your life. Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

When it does not yield to the rudder," said he to them, "the ship yields to the rock.

Eu não espero que os adversários da verdade confessem que se enganaram. Uma atitude como essa só é possível às almas mais elevadas.

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

Filipino people, the people of Tacloban, and Samar, and Cebu, and all these places where so many have died, they are strong not just to have survived this storm, but they are strong to have survived the aftermath of this storm. They have survived for a week now, often with very little food, with very little water, with very little medical attention. Can you imagine the strength it takes to be living in a shack, to be living, sleeping on the streets next to the body of your dead children?

As I go on my way I may happen to fall from a precipice or be pursued by stones, but each time, I beg you to believe, it's only a reality.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.

Toute situation présente au moins un élément positif ; il faut le trouver et travailler dessus.

L'obstacle nous fait grands.