Quotes About Adversity

Remaining peaceful in hard times completely disarms the devil.

does another, or to harass by repeated biting and snapping."2

I lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along . . .' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.'" She learned that "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

All I can control—for whatever fight I put up should a cancer make a comeback—is the time between.

Listen to me ... and I want you to remember this. Your legs are part of you, but not all of you or what you are. So wherever we go after tonight, I need you to know that you are no less for the injury. Even if you are in a chair, you still stand as tall as you ever did. Height is just a vertical number - it doesn't mean shit when it comes to your character or the kind of life you live.

The I realized no one wants to hear heroic stories, but everyone likes to be told about someone else's misery.

We live in a region where everything is given to us, thanks to Providence, but where everything is bitter.

Hay esperanza, en suma. Hay esperanza para nosotros, contra nuestro pesar.

Siempre he creído que uno debe aceptar la vida tal como es, pero siempre y cuando no tenga remedio.

Aquí todo va de mal en peor.

She'd never had so many secrets before. She'd never imagined she could be so afraid. She'd never imagined she could be so brave.

I fought the raw; the raw won.

Judith Fitzgerald

Here are the prey; there are the predators; but, the challenge remains: Be neither.

Judith Fitzgerald

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

Jennifer Merrick had stored all her tears inside her, and her pride and courage would never permit her to break down and shed them.

Fate had already done everything it could to torment her.

Someone threw a cabbage at William Howard Taft. That didn't bother Taft. He quipped, I see that one of my adversaries has lost his head.

It's strange, but when it comes right down to it I never do fall apart--even when I'm sure I will.

We all have to make decisions. I'm not saying it's easy. But you don't have to collapse every time you come face-to-face with an obstacle.

She'd learned a long time ago to look ahead, not back. What's done is done. Make the best of it and move on.

When you're without problems," Clare said, "you're dead.

It's not God's job to decide what happens," she'd said. "It's his job to help you get through it.