Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes the monsters come harder when you dare stomp. Sometimes you need to bring the whole house down.

You can't just pull anger out of a hat and make it work for you. You have to feel bad first. You always have to suffer

The question for us is how have our experiences affected us and what do we need to do to learn from our experiences, to work through those lessons, integrate them into our being, turn them over, and move on?

Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune.

Those who can best cope with setbacks have the greatest chance of fortune. My conclusion was that it's clearly worth looking into the way you deal with bad luck.

Allene had clearly inherited one thing from her pioneering forefathers, and that was the conviction that if there wasn't a road, there must be a detour that would get you where you wanted to go. And if there wasn't a detour, a road had to be built. "If one has the will and persistence, one CAN do things," she wrote later.

N?ra nieko labiau slegian?io už palikim?, kai m?gini pakilti savo sparnais: tai blogiau negu virv? korimuisi.

Providence has hidden a charm in difficult undertakings which is appreciated only by those who dare to grapple with them.

Were everything around us smooth and easy, we would remain supine, lethargic, indifferent. It is the whip of pain, of suffering, of disappointment, that drives us onward and brings out the forces of our internal life which otherwise would remain undeveloped.

That is why there are forces which you call evil. In this universe there is no evil; all is good that comes to us from I´shvara, but it sometimes comes in the guise of evil that, by opposing it, we may draw out our strength.

Poker teaches that lesson. A great poker player who has a good-size advantage over the other players at the table, making significantly better strategic decisions, will still be losing over 40% of the time at the end of eight hours of play. That's a whole lot of wrong. And it's not just confined to poker.

When we think probabilistically, we are less likely to use adverse results alone as proof that we made a decision error, because we recognize the possibility that the decision might have been good but luck and/ or incomplete information (and a sample size of one) intervened.

There is a rich universe of science studying the human tendency to persevere too long, particularly in the face of bad news.

Aldous Huxley recognized, "Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

Astro Teller also understands a subtler but no less important point, that we have a tendency, when we butt up against a monkey that is proving difficult to solve, to turn our attention to building pedestals rather than giving up. We prefer that illusion of progress to having to quit and admit defeat.

Cette méchanceté était son ressort vital, sa force pour résister à la misère et croire qu'il était un homme.

Obstacles do not appear in your way in order to stop you. Rather, they appear in order to strengthen and hone you and your plans. They are not your enemy. They are your secret ally, but only if you treat them as friendly forces of nature.

We either get success or lessons. If we learn our lessons successfully, we get both.

Instead, will is the realization that we can regard each challenge as an opportunity to awaken to our highest potential. This does not deny what has come before, but incorporates it, using it as a springboard for the future. While we can't always control what happens to us, we can control what we do about it.

A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.

An optimist sees and opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Challenge yourself with something you know you could never do, and what you'll find is that you can overcome anything.

When tempted to fight fire with fire, remember that the Fire Department usually uses water.

In life you will meet two kinds of people: Those who build you up and those who tear you down. But in the end, you will thank them both.