Quotes About Adversity

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

Necessity and desperation birth resourcefulness.

Reaching out to any fellow ghetto kids is an act he puts in the same category as doing drugs: the initial rush of warmth and euphoria puts you on a path to ruin.

If life gives you lemons, you should make lemonade. And try to find somebody who's life is giving them vodka, and have a party.

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Then find someone who's life is givin' them vodka and have a party!

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Broken to it, I, too may be; bow to it I never will.

Ronald H. Spector

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result. (Quoting Churchill)

It is never easy to win but it is a lot easier to win when you play well. The key is winning golf tournaments when you are not playing so well. Managing your game is something that I feel that I am still learning to do.

Sonjuschka, Liebste, seien Sie trotz alledem ruhig und heiter. So ist das Leben, und so muß man es nehmen, tapfer, unverzagt und lächelnd – trotz alledem." (Letters to Sonja Liebknecht)

Cuando el dolor cae sobre ti sin paliativos, lo primero que te arranca es la palabra.

It was just a matter of survival?like getting off the road?so we could exist form day to day.

tendons. They tore and snapped, making

Florence Nightingale was never called "the Lady with the Lamp," but "the Lady with the Hammer," an image deftly readjusted by the war reporter of the Times since it was far too coarse for the folks back home. Far from gliding about the hospital with her lamp aloft, Nightingale earned her nickname through a ferocious attack on a locked storeroom when a military commander refused to give her the medical supplies she needed.

It isn't enough to say "Be honest" or "Do the right thing," because in moments of conflict many of us lack the skills to move through the fear and put our values into action. The context of the situation really matters more than a catchphrase. What's way more useful for boys is to talk to them about what integrity looks like to you under duress.

I am here today to cross the swamp, not to fight all the alligators.

The rain in Florida may be bad for us and good for the citrus crop. A canceled flight may wreck our schedule and bring us face to face with our future spouse in the airport lounge. A forest fire may seem to destroy an ecosystem in the short term, yet renew it with vigor for the long term. When a splendid osprey eats a beautiful fish, it is neither good nor bad. Or, it's good for the osprey and bad for the fish. Nature makes no judgment. Humans do.

I saved myself by starting a story.... I fainted, lost breath, so that I could hardly keep moving my lips. But I did continue and recovered. I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

The only thing that God can do, and does all of the time, is to draw good from any evil situation.

New devils require new gods.

As I feel into a darker sleep, I understood that I had learned something. Now that I knew fear, I also knew that it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.