Quotes About Adversity

So be thankful if you have been sent to school to Mistress Poverty, for though she is the sternest, yet she is the wisest and most faithful teacher, and if you will learn the tasks she sets, you will surely become a brave and noble man.

We have successfully grappled with some giant evils and have slain them, but others to meet and conquer them is a question still. It depends upon the boys if today to answer that. It is upon their shoulders that the burden will fall, and they are ones to whom the fight is coming.

One bad thing can often be rectified or overlooked, but several of them can sometimes coalesce into a compound disaster that sprouts tentacles and develops a self-directed will of its own, the kind of thing my dear old dad used to call a cluster fudge bar.

troubles are poor things to hug. They've got too many prickers.

My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

A woman is like a tea bag. You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

Meeting smaller emergencies and learning to deal with them had given me the confidence to deal with this larger emergency. So, little by little, I found out how to do things. After each catastrophe you don't worry so much the next time, and each time you emerge stronger from your victory.

We gain courage and wisdom from every instance in which we stop to look fear in the face.

no one can afford not to be a man. No position can compensate for coming face to face with a robot when you are alone.

Every time you meet a crisis and live through it, you make it simpler for the next time.

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It is, however, the better part of wisdom to regard the mistake as experience which will help guide you in the future, a part, though a painful part, of your education.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to really look fear in the face... Do the thing you think you cannot do.