Quotes about Adversity

Its not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens you.

Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them … But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

We've got to laugh or break our hearts in this damnable world.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.

When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let is destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.

And I learned that are troubles Of more than one kind Some come from ahead And some come from behind.

All Alone! Whether you like it or not, Alone will be something you'll be quite a lot. And when you're alone, there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants. There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. —Dr. Seuss" ? Ellery Adams, The Vanishing Type