Quotes About Adversity

We'll have to take it slow from here on out," the Fireman said. He had that one wrong.

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be kicked in the nuts as soon as they try to get back up.

I learned it... after the storm... we're a lot stronger than we think we are.

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

Everyone has a plan until they've been hit.

I done the best I could with what I had -- Joe Louis

The fact was I never had the tools for proper living, because my family never had the tools, and I thought the entire human race was like that.

Baseball in the Negro Leagues was a little bit rougher, a little bit sweeter, a little bit faster, a little bit cooler, and a little bit more fun than anything... in Major League baseball.

Size and strength didn't intimidate Herman. As he told me later, no matter how big they grow, balls and eyes stay soft and a tire tool has no friends.

We broke and ran. The squirrel, however, was not a quitter. Glancing over my shoulder, I saw that it was in fact gaining on us, and Leonard's cussing was having absolutely no effect, other than to perhaps further enrage the animal, who might have had Baptist leanings. We

Breathing the air was like swallowing broken glass.

How many times have you thought you couldn't handle something. It would not be a short list if you are a normal human. Now think about what happened ev try time you thought you couldn't handle something. You wound up handling it! You always handle it. So, the next time that thought appears tell yourself this out loud: I CAN handle it, because I always do. -from Work Smarter, Live Better

How many times have you thought you couldn't handle something. It would not be a short list if you are a normal human. Now think about what happened every time you thought you couldn't handle something. You wound up handling it! You always handle it. So, the next time that thought appears tell yourself this out loud: I CAN handle it, because I always do. -from Work Smarter, Live Better

I have three favorite politicians: Reagan, Truman, and Bobby Kennedy - Bobby for showing remarkable political courage despite being loathed by many on both sides.

You are never going to stop me from achieving my goal, Perry. You ought to know that by now. Do you wish to know the definition of a tragic hero?""Not particularly.""A tragic hero is an individual who, with every attempt to restore things to normal, only pushes himself further away from normalcy."She nodded. "That is you, Perry.

You should not be afraid of a little blood," Gobi said. "Life is full of it.

Courage has been described as "grace under pressure".

At first I didn't think I'd even be able to play—I had way too much going on in my mind—but to my profound surprise, my fingers didn't seem to care. Apparently if you wanted to rock, it didn't matter if you had explosives in the basement, or a father with a chronic problem with keeping his dick in his pants, or a crazed ex-Blackwater employee with some religious conviction for ripping your head off. Hell, it might have helped.

He had sat numb, repeatedly questioning why his own tumble had been held on the same piton just before the Japanese leader had fallen and ripped it out. A day later he was his normal self again: an experience absorbed, shelved in his memory, understood and accepted, and left at that.

Eventually, it is found out but it takes time especially in the conditions when communication is difficult, when the enemy is making it extremely awkward for information to come out, to go.

Life is a tough teacher. First she gives the test.

A proud man, Dr. Weisz had initially turned down the offer. He was a scholar, not a tradesman or a clerk. This was Germany. He was lettered. He would teach. He would write. He would publish and support his family along the way. But soon it became painfully obvious that these were no longer options for Jews in Germany. How Uncle Avi continued to own and run several businesses, Jacob had never understood. He dared not ask. He was simply grateful.

My mom always said that there would be haters. Not everyone can love ya.

Sometimes I feel sorry for myself for some of the tougher things I've had to encounter in life, but other than that, I wouldn't change a thing. It makes me happy to know I could endure. And it gets easier and easier as you go on. [—Erykah Badu]