Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes it's necessary to go a long distance out of the way in order to come back a short distance correctly.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Mistakes, loss, and failure are all flashing lights clearly pointing the way to deeper understanding and creative solutions.

The same refinement which brings us new pleasures, exposes us to new pains.

He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.

Convicts on the main line sent me books from the library. I've always been able to make it if I could read.

Reading taught me that prison had been the crucible that had formed several great writers. Cervantes wrote much of Don Quixote in a prison cell, and Dostoyevski was a mediocre writer until he was sentenced to death, commuted within a few hours of execution, and then sent to prison in Siberia.

These were desperate times, the two men agreed; it was easy to stay at home and pull the bedcovers over your heads, but if nothing was done, someone would rip the bedcovers from your face and tug you naked into the street.

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three — all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds-- all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.

George Washington is the only president who never blamed the previous administration for his troubles.

Your necklace may break, the fau tree may burst, but my tattooing is indestructible. It is an everlasting gem that you will take into your grave.

We'd rather fight than switch!

If anything can go wrong, it will.

It's just life — wake up and smell the thorns.

If we don't face and overcome unsettling events in life, we are ruled by them.

If I've learned anything from video games, it's what when you meet enemies it means you're going in the right direction.

In any other sport, if you miss the catch all you lose is the ball.

Dear Life: When you give me dilemmas, I make dilemmanade.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

A friend cannot be known in prosperity: and an enemy cannot be hidden in adversity.