Quotes About Adversity

her utter a word of complaint." "Has she always been so?" "Oh, no. She fell from the barn loft ten years ago. Hunting

And they shall fight against thee but they shall not prevail against thee, for I am with thee, saith the Lord of Hosts, to deliver thee.

Life would be dull if we hadn't a few tragedies to look back on.

She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.

Now, don't fly off the handle. Martha said the butcher at the Glen had no meat this week and she had to have something and the hens were all laying and too poor.

un corazón roto no es ni la mitad de terrible que en los libros. Es como tener una muela picada, aunque no te parezca un símil muy romántico: te duele de vez en cuando y te da alguna que otra mala noche, pero entretanto te deja disfrutar de la vida, los sueños, los ecos y los caramelos como si no pasara nada.

Well, well, we can't get through this world without our share of trouble. I've had a pretty easy life of it so far, but my time has come at last and I suppose I'll just have to make the best of it.

Knitting is something you can do, even when your heart is going like a trip-hammer and the pit of your stomach feels all gone and your thoughts are catawampus. Then when I see the headlines, be they good or be they bad, I calm down and am able to go about my business again.

As a girl, as a woman, how did you possibly win? When faced with a whole damn life full of sexual situations and decisions, how did you possibly make all the right moves?

As the days passed, I began to look upon my fate with new eyes. I often lamented the wicked turns my life had taken, but I rarely considered how much I had to be thankful for, how I had survived so long where so many others had perished, how I had seen wonders that no other Zamori had... I had been so intent on counting all the miseries and humiliations I had endured that I neglected to thank the Almighty for the blessings he had bestowed upon me.

I often lamented the wicked turns my life had taken, but I rarely considered how much I had to be thankful for, how I had survived so long where so many others had perished

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

What losing does is, it restores the perspective.

Some things you can't win, though I don't like to admit it. I'm not used to losing much of anything, whether its a race or a debate, but among the things that I nearly lost are my life, my neck, and my good name, and I've gained a realization: a life of unbroken success is not only impossible, it's probably not even good for you...

I had a decision to make. To me, it wasn't a hard one: if I could ride, I was going. Crashes were unavoidable in cycling, and so was bad luck, and if you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

Make every obstacle an opportunity." And that's what we did.

Make every negative into a positive," as my mother says. Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

There comes a time in every race when a competitor meets the real opponent, and understands that it's himself.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

An environment of fast growth can cover a multitude of sins, but an era of slow growth will magnify every shortcoming of every person in the business, especially the leaders.

There will always be enemies. Time to stop being your own.

You don't look strong enough to trouble nobody around here.... We grow our own troubles--it would be a novelty to have some we ain't already used to.

He didn't tell Newt all he knew. He didn't tell him that even when life seemed easy, it kept on getting harder.

Death and worse happened on the plains.