Quotes About Adversity

Though I walk through The Valley of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil

An intractable problem can only be resolved by stepping beyond conventional solutions

S]orrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich ... Sorrow is better than fear. Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.

When the storm threatens, a man is afraid for his house. But when the house is destroyed, there is something to do. About a storm he can do nothing, but he can rebuild a house.

She had a massive headache and there was blood running down her face, but she seemed to be otherwise OK.

It wasn't all bad," Skulduggery responded. "It gave me time to catch up on some screaming.

As Bonaparte would sigh centuries later, it takes very few defeats to unmake a self-made man.

This sort of knockdown or capsize happens surprisingly often to small boats in bad storms. They usually survive, although their crews' nervous systems are never the same afterward. It has never happened to me. If it ever does, I'll take the old sailor's traditional retirement: walk inland carrying an oar until someone says, "What's that?," buy a chicken farm on that very spot, and never move.

No weapon that is formed against me shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against me in judgment I do condemn. This is my heritage as a servant of the Lord, and my righteousness is from You, O Lord of Hosts.

I became as hard as whipcord, but with a brain like cottonwool.

All the evil in the world is powerless against intelligence and courage.

he himself would have fought back. Not easy when you're naked,

It begs for a gospel of perseverance through inevitable failure... There is no antidote to the chaos of creative markets. Only the brute doggedness to endure it.

whether it concerns the things which are in our control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

Brown, in retrospect, was a serious disappointment, but if we can learn the lessons it did not intend to teach, it will not go down as a defeat.

My principle has ever been to attempt to overcome myself rather than fortune and to change my desires rather than the natural order.

Even tho' he struggled with life he kept elbowing his way through the crowd of envy, even tho' it felt like the weight of the world was on his shoulders he would never allow his head to hang to the ground; in a world lost in misery. -MillYentei

He became the Rose that struggled throughout life that was never meant to make it; but he grew out of difficult times in this unmerciful world like a rose struggling to grow out of the cracks in the rock-hard concrete. He became inspired by the Great Makaveli.... -MillYentei

My God; I might as well smile today because it seems as if the red clay we have been created from "Adamah" / "mother-earth" isn't changing for the greater good. -MillYentei

Nearly all of your threatening haters will be forced to bow their heads before you; the day you have achieved your greatest accomplishment. -MillYentei

This morning I woke up and pulled all the knives out of my back, I then asked God to Please protect me from my enemies. -MillYentei_D.Y

You would be extremely surprised how many living souls have become infuriated because you showed them that you're not weak or easily broken -MillYentei

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Be the best you can be, in the worst of circumstances, even when no one is watching.