Quotes about Adversity
To the student I would say, "Life is principally multiple choice, but at the end there's a tough essay question."
- Robert Brault
If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.
- Robert Brault
Sometimes I think my life would make a great TV movie. It even has the part where they say, "Stand by. We are experiencing temporary difficulties."
- Robert Brault
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
- Robert Brault
Life pushes all of us around. Some people give up and others fight. A few learn the lesson and move on. They welcome life pushing them around. To these few people it means they need and want to learn something.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Life is the best teacher of all. Most of the time, life does not talk to you. It just sort of pushes you around. Each push is life saying, 'Wake up'. There is something I want you to learn.
- Robert Kiyosaki
All life lessons are not learned at college,' she thought. 'Life teaches them everywhere.
- LM Montgomery
Don't be very frightened, Marilla. I was walking the ridge-pole and I fell off. I suspect I have sprained my ankle. But, Marilla, I might have broken my neck. Let us look on the bright side of things.
- LM Montgomery
the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.
- LM Montgomery
I am well in body though considerably rumpled up in spirit.
- LM Montgomery
I know that in everybody's life must come days of depression and discouragement when all things in life seem to lose savour. The sunniest day has its clouds;but one must not forget the sun is there all the time.
- LM Montgomery
What a spineless thing I must be not to have even one enemy!
- LM Montgomery