Quotes About Adversity

In reality, the very thing that gave the giant his size was also the source of his greatest weakness. There is an important lesson in that for battles with all kinds of giants. The powerful and the strong are not always what they seem.

What happens to true believers when their convictions are confronted by reality?

The first is that much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of these kinds of lopsided conflicts, because the act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty. And second, that we consistently get these kinds of conflicts wrong.

He was an underdog and a misfit, and that gave him the freedom to try things no one else even dreamt of.

it is possible to emerge from even the darkest hell healed and restored

They were unconvinced of the power of giants.

what started out as adversity ended up being an opportunity.

they have to overcome a hurdle, they'll overcome it better when you force them to think a little harder.

Or, as the English essayist Thomas De Quincey famously put it: "It is, or it is not, according to the nature of men, an advantage to be orphaned at an early age.

the fact of being an underdog can change people in ways that we often fail to appreciate:

Chris Langan, by contrast, had only the bleakness of Bozeman, and a home dominated by an angry, drunken stepfather. "[Jack] Langan did this to all of us," said Mark.

A few years later, she deliberately drove her car into a river—then, in typical fashion, wrote a poem about it: And like the cat I have nine times to die. This is Number Three.

put down the roots, and the rabbits and lumberjacks they were lucky enough to avoid? This is not

Esiste un modo per ricavare un trionfo da un fallimento.

the question that my book leaves us with: If David beat Goliath—if, in fact, Davids beat Goliaths all the time, if adversity is a great teacher, if resources ultimately become self-defeating—why doesn't that change the way we make sense of the world?

And she knew nothing whatever of what all too recently he had gone through, his fall in the Calle Nicaragua, his aplomb, coolness, even bravery there—the Burke's Irish whiskey! What a world.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance next time.

Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]

True strength is shown by the person who remains humble, quiet, & positive throughout all adversity and maintains their path towards success.

Make no cry in failure! Make no noise in success! In failure, silence; in success, silence! Fly with the same attitude both in the high and in the low altitudes!

If there is one thing to get excited about, it's your ability to turn the negative into success.

My success lies in having achieved a record numbers of failures.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

There have been ups and downs, but it has taught us a lot in life. Going with the team through those ups and downs is a terrific journey.