Quotes About Adversity

A sailor at war with the wind and the sea.

He was broken from the start. And this stupid world took what was left of him and ground it into sand.

Shandril stood, furious and heartsick, and lashed out with spellfire. "Wherever I go! Always beset, always friends and companions hurt! You seek spellfire? Well, then—have it!

I divorced myself from the dead guy. I decided that life in Nam was just that way. Whatever emotions I had, needed a cement vault to hide in. And they would hide, even if I had to push them in and shut the door. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose. Winners got up in the morning; losers didn't.

I slid my hand back down his leg to his boot to get hold of the wire. Hood leaned down, and whispered, "Kug, that feels good, turns me on." What an asshole! I found his laces and sure enough, on his left leg, the one bent back, was a trip wire.

You know, you asked me about our lives during the "Great Depression." None of us called it that then. It was just hard times.

A positive attitude can turn a difficult situation into an opportunity for growth and success.

As I turned to the chapters dedicated to operations in North Vietnam, the ridiculous gave way to the absurd. I couldn't discern whether the enemy was the North Vietnamese or the U.S. Navy. The enemy might just as easily have been the State Department or even the Joint Chiefs of Staff. They all seemed to have a voice in the ROE, and the tone of the voice was seldom in favor of winning the war, defeating the enemy, or even ensuring the fighter pilot's chances of survival.

Just as the mighty sequoia would topple without a community of supporting trees, believers who seek transformation apart from a Christian community are vulnerable to spiritually topple in the winds of adversity.

It's fine to enjoy familiar surroundings and desire familiar comforts—as long as we understand there may be times when we can't have them. Sometimes we're called to larger duties—like a soldier leaving home to go off to war. Second thoughts at such times are natural—but the Bible tells us, "You therefore must endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ" (2 Timothy 2:3 NKJV).

Just because you love the mountains doesn't mean the mountains love you.

the high peaks with small expeditions, or entirely alone. I guess you need some traumatic experiences or your life stagnates. A shock can actually prove very beneficial.

Thus Betty scraped through a second bitter crisis, one that might have shattered a character more brittle. But she had grown sharp as bile from this, her latest shock, and each passing day increased her edge. Worse, there was no one now to notice her shrinking humanity and cry halt...by turns she would become lightheaded, cackling away like one insane. It was the lightness of one who has nothing more to lose.

Things most oft bad begun most oft get worse, as a wise man once said.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

In every generation, ever since Negroes have been here, every Negro mother and father has had to face that child and try to create in that child some way of surviving this particular world, some way to make the child who will be despised not despise himself. I don't know what "the Negro Problem" means to white people, but this is what it means to Negroes.

rejected the life everyone expected of him. "My luck was running out," he said in a 1984 interview for The Paris Review. "I was going to jail, I was going to kill somebody or be killed.

The storms keep coming, and we are expected to keep moving & to endure no matter what.

In front of him was the bitterness and disappointment in a country that fought them at every turn.

Difficult days are good with a good smile, bitter, butter, bread: B is for a big smile.

One person can destroy my world But not my light.

Difficult days are great with a good smile Bitter, butter, bread B is for BIG SMILES.

You shouldn't dwell on it," Mrs. Jaks had said. "Forgive him and you'll live without his shadow on your lives." "The world is hard," his mom had said. "You need to be harder.

Degenerate sons and daughters,Life is too strong for you—It takes life to love life.