Quotes About Adversity

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

My big takeaway was that you lace up your skates, you put on your helmet and you get on the ice knowing all the rules. If you get blindsided, that's just part of it; if your teammate doesn't pass to you and takes the shot himself, that's the game, and if you lose 4–0, that's the game too. You just go out there and do your best with what you've got.

Love is hard sometimes. Life throws all kinds of things at us, and some aren't too pleasant.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

Don't major on the fall, major on getting up!

It is how we respond to loss that matters. That response will largely determine the quality, the direction, and the impact of our lives.

I had no way of anticipating the adjustments I would have to make and the suffering I would have to endure in the months and years ahead.

As far as I could tell, life was nothing but a forced march down a mined highway. Even if you did everything you were supposed to do, sooner of later if was your turn to step on a claymore.

When life becomes sub-human, sub-humans come alive.

My life - and this hit so hard I nearly toppled over - my life was Apollo 13! Launched with high expectations and pathetically crashed.

He's like a flower doing its best on an asteroid, naked to so many cosmic terrors.

Wayne had roasted a turkey with his dad. They hadn't cooked together in what felt like a lifetime, and it was nice to soak and dice and chop. After Wayne called out why so tough, turnips , it became their exclamation when anything went wrong in the kitchen.

Sus oídos, escucharon un último disparo; una bala viajó por su cuerpo sin permiso, atravesándolo por una pierna.

Small-town kids are pebbles in a river, pushed around by the flow, forming pockets and piles, reforming when the current picks up and we find ourselves in a whole new cluster.

Every woman should have pearls," Mom said, "to remind ourselves that grit under pressure becomes beauty.

JUDGE. And before we start I want you all to realize that there's no problem too big to solve. Into every life a little rain must fall. Every cloud must have a silver lining, and it is always darkest before the dawn. LIZ. Well, now that we've had the weather report, let's get on with the case.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

One wants the struggle. One shouldn't permit it to be removed.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

you may not be responsible for being down. but you are respinsible for getting up.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month. But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing

Being brave isn't about being unafraid. It's about functioning through the fear.