Quotes About Adversity

Have you ever noticed that things that don't kill you make you weaker? And great minds don't think alike. If they did, the patent office would only have about fifty inventions. I started getting suspicious when I cried over spilt milk and the cashier took it off my bill." - Wally

I've long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

Everything you want out of life is in that huge, bubbling vat of failure. The trick is to get the good stuff out.

Scott: What's the cure? Doctor: There is none. Scott: But that isn't what I heard. The optimist in me translated the gloomy news as Scott, you will be the first person in the world to be cured of spasmodic dysphonia. And I decided that after I cured myself, somehow, someway, I would spread the word to others. I wouldn't be satisfied escaping from my prison of silence. I was planning to escape, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison.

failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success.

You can't keep all bad luck from finding you, but you can fortify yourself to the point where the smaller stuff bounces off.

long seen failure as a tool, not an outcome.

And always remember that failure is your friend. It is the raw material of success. Invite it in. Learn from it. And don't let it leave until you pick its pocket. That's a system.

grabbing failure by the throat and squeezing it until it coughs up a hairball of success.

The Confederate Army's fight against overwhelming odds, is one of the most glorious moments in Anglo-Saxon history." —Sir Winston Churchill

an ill-equipped relatable character who faces impossible odds yet doesn't give up.

Sometimes suffering is what's best for us, if only because it keeps us from sinning or tempting others to sin.

Locke sighed. 'So this is winning,' he said. 'It is,' replied Jean. 'It can go fuck itself,' said Locke.

Besides, it ain't an accident that gangs are made up of young men who have nothing. We value our lives little enough to risk them for a little money or a lot of fun.

First we crawl. Later we crawl on broken glass.

The end of the world had taught Rachel Wheeler many lessons, but the most recent one was this: Running for your life was a bitch when you only had one leg. She tightened the moist, stained bandana that kept the worst of the leaking to a minimum, then hobbled forward another ten feet. The wild dog that had bitten her could have inflicted any number of infections, but it wasn't like she could hobble into the ER and

When we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

Maybe that's what Batman is about. Not winning. But failing, and getting back up. Knowing he'll fail, fail a thousand times, but still won't give up

But Dixon had once been a soldier. He knew that courage was not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

Will banntot turn snow to rain, or roll back the sea, but it can keep you from being simply steamrollered by fate.

Will cannot turn snow into rain, or roll back the seas, but it can keep you from being simply steamrollered by fate.

Looking him over, I realized that Robbie Feaver had turned an important corner in his life in the last few weeks; he remained good-looking, but worry and sleeplessness and depression and poor diet had worn on him in a way likely to be permanent. They had stolen some of his glory. Yet he'd maintained the show-must-go-on spirit, and had done his best to look his part.

Hope, that blind songbird. It flies through the bleakest skies.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.