Quotes about Adversity

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

Odat? cu nenorocirea, vine È™i o uÈ™urare, o înseninare: porÈ›iuni vaste ale vieÈ›ii tale sunt date la o parte, devin dintr-odat? neînsemnate.

When he strays from straddling the mane of weeds, brambles rake his painted sides.

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

During the toughest challenges in my life I've come to most appreciate all Coach Wooden means to me. The things he would say—"Don't lie, don't cheat, don't steal, don't whine, don't complain, don't make excuses; worry about the things you can control, and not the things you can't"—were endless. Yet there is an appropriate one for every situation. The real

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out

Make the best of what you've got; play the cards you are dealt. Walt Disney once said, "There is no education like adversity." However, to gain this education you must be tough enough to overcome adversity rather than allowing adversity to overcome you.

Condition Your Team to Love the Struggle.

Everything can be taken from a human being but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." MBSR