Quotes About Adversity

It's much more interesting to watch someone who is ill-equipped to solve their problem fight to solve their problem than wallow in the knowledge that they're ill-equipped to solve their problems.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.

Green pine trees, cranes and turtles ... You must tell a story of your hard times And laugh twice.

A YEAR after the bomb was dropped, Miss Sasaki was a cripple; Mrs. Nakamura was destitute; Father Kleinsorge was back in the hospital; Dr. Sasaki was not capable of the work he once could do; Dr. Fujii had lost the thirty-room hospital it took him many years to acquire, and had no prospects of rebuilding it; Mr. Tanimoto's church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional vitality. The lives of these six people, who were among the luckiest in Hiroshima, would never be the same.

More afraid than hurt.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.

Ill weed groweth fast.

At a time when I was trying to make something of myself, they were a destabilizing influence.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

The ability to overcome failure—to live through it and move on—is crucial. If we are not willing to face failure—if we don't have the skills to survive it—we have precluded any real creativity or risk. Failure may never become our friend, but if we are to do meaningful work, perhaps failure needs to be our companion.

Keep passing the open windows.

return to the grim business of living.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

They are trying to live, but they have no room to breathe. So they try harder and breathe less.

There is an advantage in every disadvantage and a gift in every problem.

It was a difficult day. Disorienting. What is it they say? Death, divorce, and moving are the three most stressful events for your heart. And your psyche, too, I'll wager.

Tal vez el Empleador es uno de esos hombres que creen que un revés temprano, espectacular, los espolea a conseguir un triunfo mundial más adelante».

La Tierra es redonda, pero es la gente que vive en ella la que crea los límites, y hace que sea terriblemente fácil caer al abismo, donde todavía hay monstruos que esperan ansiosos para tragarte.

Admiro al salmón porque comprendo lo que significa ser empujado por fuerzas que los demás no pueden ver, sentir ni oír, y percibir la obligación de un deber más importante que uno mismo.

Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.

Your circumstances and situations never keep you down. The only things that keep you down and keep you stuck are your thoughts.