Quotes About Adversity

Truly, when the gods set their faces against you, you are fucked.

O to break loose, like the chinooksalmon jumping and falling back,nosing up to the impossiblestone and bone-crushing waterfall.

You're on your own now. You are not helpless. You will find your way.

If the Nazis discovered they could push you, they would push you to your death. You had to be too much trouble to make it easy, but not so much they grew tired of you.

Harry's grades dropped noticeably. This wasn't the result of ostracism or intimidation—that did occur, but Harry was never beaten or physically bullied by his

A positive attitude, can turn a storm into a sprinkle.

Have courage enough to accept what you can not change, but yet courageous enough to stand up and fight for what you can.

There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

Robert Masello

Robert Masello

The sight of it made her want to weep. She was alone in the boat—alone in the world—and the tiller was already lurching wildly from one side to the other, screeching louder than the gulls swooping in and out of the fog. The hollow place in her heart, the place where she had already stored so many deaths, would now have to find room for Sergei's, too.

clambered to the top of a pile of ruins, feeling his way over broken bricks and burnt timbers and shattered glass. His

When life gets scary and difficult, we tend to look for solutions in places where it is easy or at least familiar to do so, and not in the dark, uncomfortable places where real solutions might lie.

They think life is A, B, C, D, E. That's just when life likes to turn you around, kick you in the butt, and grin: "Not today, my friend. Today it's E, D, C, B, A. Sorry." PRINCIPLE

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Cut your losses early.

La bancarrota es temporal, la pobreza, eterna.

Albert Einstein es: "Los espíritus grandes a menudo han encontrado una oposición violenta por parte de mentes mediocres.

Tu problema es que tu índice de fracaso es muy bajo. Si quieres aprender a vender tienes que fracasar con más rapidez».

La vida nos empuja a todos. Algunos se rinden y otros luchan. Algunos aprenden las lecciones y continúan, reciben con alegría los embates porque saben que los empujones significan que necesitan —y deben— aprender algo. Saben que tienen que aprender y continuar viviendo. Pero son muy pocos. La mayoría sólo renuncia. Algunos, como tú, pelean.

Twice I fought back, but I got pretty badly beaten

Just do what Colonel Sanders did." At the age of 66, he lost his business and began to live on his Social Security check. It wasn't enough. He went around the country selling his recipe for fried chicken. He was turned down 1,009 times before someone said yes. And he went on to become a multimillionaire at an age when most people are quitting. "He was a brave and tenacious man," rich dad said of Harlan Sanders.

My self-confidence was challenged.