Quotes about Adversity

When we won the title, I received gifts and cards, bottles of wine, and Champagne. When I was sacked, my house was full.

Often people ask how I manage to be happy despite having no arms and no legs. The quick answer is that I have a choice. I can be angry about not having limbs, or I can be thankful that I have a purpose. I chose gratitude.

I'm a man who has failed in many areas, but the one thing I don't want to do is quit.

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.