Quotes About Adversity

The point is the love story. We live in a love story in the midst of war.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If you don't feel the pointed things in life, you'll soon take the soft ones for granted.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

The path we have chosen for the present is full of hazards, as all paths are. The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. [Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]

It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.

Sin embargo, hay milagros en la vida. Un hombre puede cambiar, aunque sea para sobrevivir.

He stood up. It was time to call his dad and give him a report. "He's always great in situations like this. He never lectures, never gets down. He's always encouraging. He always says, 'Okay, get back to work, and you'll get 'em tomorrow.' He's right, of course. The problem is, at some point you run out of tomorrows.

I feel like if they can handle me, they can probably handle any crowd on the road or any kind of adversity that may come up in a game.

John Feinstein

We fight[,] get beat[,] rise and fight again.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

A hundred people is rather a large handful for the four of us to take on," Malcolm pointed out. "Do you have any ideas about how we're going to handle that task?" "Simple," Halt told him. "We'll surround them.

Always expect trouble in the desert. Then you usually won't meet it.

Now," said Halt, "all I have to do is work out a way of beating these horse-riding devils." Erak grinned at him. "That should be child's play," he said. "The hard part will be convincing Ragnak about it.

Got to keep losing horses," he said drowsily. "Bad habit.

Face your fears, Halt had always thought him, and more often than not they fade like mist in the sunshine

Many rulers would have spent the morning complaining loudly about the cold and the discomfort, as if their complaints would actually serve to alleviate the situation and as if their attendants should be able to do something about it. Not the emperor. He accepted the situation knowing that he could do nothing to change the weather. Best to endure it without making life more difficult for those around him.

The point of this is, accidents happen. People tread on you. Nanny goats chew your hair.

I'll think of you when I'm tucked up in a warm bed at Castle Araluen and you're all out sleeping in muddy ditches and drafty barns." A chorus of cheerful abuse met this comment