Quotes About Adversity

Si la vida fuera siempre fácil, sería insípida

A hero ain't nothing but a sandwich.

I was living in the cheapest of all paper houses, living as the Japanese themselves do, on a handful of rice, and learning by experience how very little it requires to keep body and soul together.

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.

Once this person this counselor at school, this LADY, if you know what I mean, told me that if you kept your nose to the grindstone you could be someone in the world, and I thought, Yeah someone with a fucked up nose.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

Life never tires of testing the proposition that life must go on.

Life is not fair, nor has it ever been, but the morning seems determined to dawn until it is.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

Most marriages can survive "better or worse." The tester is all the years of "exactly the same."

To find someone who will love you through success and failure is to discover how little life has to do with either.

Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

But what if I fail of my purpose here? It is but to keep the nerves at strain, to dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall, and, baffled, get up and begin again.

One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.

Out of the wreck I rise.

Then welcome each rebuffThat turns earth's smoothness rough,Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go!Be our joys three parts pain!Strive, and hold cheap the strain;Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

To dry one's eyes and laugh at a fall,And baffled, get up and begin again.

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,The heroes of old,Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrearsOf pain, darkness, and cold.

Every obstacle is a gift, every problem is an opportunity for growth.

Inspiring bold John Barleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi' tippenny, we fear nae evil; Wi' usquabae, we'll face the devil!