Quotes About Adversity

A veces la vida se pone difícil cuando tu perfil no coincide con el de todos los demás.

Rich dad knew that failure would only make him stronger and smarter. It's not that he wanted to lose. He just knew who he was and how he would take a loss. He would take a loss and make it a win.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn. But have fun.

Things were not coming our way.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

I managed to make it clear that what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured me; I was like a piece of meat that is burned on one side and raw on the other, and it was on the raw side I needed to work,. I thanked her, as well as I could, for what she had done for me.

Poor woman, I suppose she led a dog's life, and it made her disagreeable, which she mistook for being strong.

You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.

Nobody gets through life without a broken heart. The important thing is to break the heart so that when it mends it will be stronger than before.

The gods destroy the heroes with a sudden blow, but they grind us mediocrities for weary, weary years.

and his goose would be cooked; probably suicide would be his only way out.

I am like a man who has built his house on the lip of a volcano. Until the volcano claims me I live, in a sense, heriocally.

I realized that I needed God more than I needed rescuing. I needed to draw closer to Him in the storm more than I needed to be taken out of the storm.

like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?

He looked at her rather as a man looks at a problem that he would very much prefer to do without. She supposed it was a distinction of a sort to be a harassment to a king.

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task.

Post-traumatic shock, phooey. Seemed to me the trauma was trotting right along with me, like a dog on a leash with its owner. I was the dog. I

But the worst borne is not necessarily past and over with thereby. The worst of fighting a dragon is being caught in its fire, but you do not survive dragon encounters by commanding your muscles to withstand dragon fire, because you and they cannot. You survive by avoiding being burnt.

She had courage enough, but little imagination; or she would not have forgotten joy, whatever the weight on her.

Oh, big surprise. Something wasn't going to be easy. I tried to rouse myself, to react. I failed.

I could wallpaper a room with rejection letters.

life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need.

I wept because I had no shoes until I saw a man who had no feet.