Quotes About Adversity

Everyone has something in their life, in their world, that can break them.

Get a grip, change your shorts, and move on to the task at hand.

in a world of monsters, you had to be a ghost to survive.

I think I got a rock in mine, 'stead of bacon." "Heh. Well, that's life for you. Sometimes you get bacon. Sometimes you get a rock. My advice to you, sir, is to eat what you can, spit out what you cain't.

the wagons were turned clear around, and many of the terrified oxen attempted to turn to the hills, with the heavy wagons attached to them. Others turned around so short

ROBERT A. CARTER

Robert A. Carter

fighting for their existence." Deloria also notes that

We spend our lives drowning in the sea of things we never wished to experience.

Avoid the trap of seeing your errors as catastrophic and your limitations as defining.

Errors should free you from the prison of your ignorance rather than shackle you to your lowest moments.

define personal power as a state of mind in which a person is confident he can handle whatever may come. This kind of power not only successfully deals with problems, challenges and adversity, it actually welcomes them, meets them head on, and is thankful for them. Personal power isn't the absence of fear. Even the most powerful people have fear. Personal power is the result of feeling fear, but not giving in to the fear.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you - if you don't play, you can't win.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy.

People can forget when times are easy that bad things sometimes just happen, or they start to believe that bad things only happen to bad people, people who somehow brought it upon themselves.

The ability to keep going even when things look bleak, when you feel beaten, and to fight off the sense of loss and despair. Whatever the reason. The will to survive might just get you through a disaster that claims scores of other lives.

It wounded me enough to ground me, but not so much as to knock all the life out of me.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on.

we will always be attracted to the situation or person that we need, in any given moment, in order to learn whatever lesson that we need to learn. The most important thing is to learn the lesson quickly, let go, and then move on.

A wise business executive once said that in order to "grow as a leader" a person must feel "a strong will to modify the environment to make it better, then create challenging situations that (he or she) can't get out of except by changing.

all problems can be reperceived as challenges, or "opportunities" to change, grow or learn.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

How about the wrong crowd," I said. "You getting in with them?" "Not much luck," Paul said. "I'm trying like hell, but the wrong crowd doesn't seem to want me." "Don't quit," I said. "You want something, you go after it. I was nearly thirty-five before I could get in with wrong crowd.