Quotes about Adversity

When you're in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you're not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you're not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn't failing; it's getting too comfortable.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.

I can face things that are out of my control and not act out of control.

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.

Stay angry, little Meg," Mrs Whatsit whispered. "You will need all your anger now.

you've got to learn to walk through a pigpen and not get dirty.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

We are going to your father, Mrs. Which said. But where is he? Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but quite firm. On a planet that has given in. So you must prepare to be very strong.

On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.

Why is it, she wondered, that things that hurt people make them deeper and more understanding?