Adversity Quote by Jo Baker

“Life was beautiful, but it was also painful. People fail, a few get up, but there’s never a guarantee that their second attempt will…

— J.C. Reed

“Endurance, after all, was a kind of victory; a kind of heroism, too.”

— Orson Scott Card

“She had been so fiercely alive. She had spoken honestly, and lived with an honesty that few could claim to match. She had made…

— Ann Napolitano

“Her life was one endless loop that she raced around, with steep banked curves so she could never change or slow down. It just…

— Chris Cleave

“And in life, at least her new life, chances were the best she could hope for. They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising…

— Veronica Rossi

“Because there’s no such thing as a meaningless sacrifice, Mr. Hill. Because any positive act, no matter how hopeless or insignificant, is ultimately worthwhile.”

— Michael Jan Friedman

“... I could challenge the notion that I was constantly headed for failure.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

“As her feet beat the concrete ground beneath them, her chest began to ache. It had been a long time since she had run…

— Ross Caligiuri

“She wanted to struggle with life but it seemed to elude her.”

— Zora Neale Hurston

“They were like her rocks. Imperfect and surprising and maybe better in the long run than certainties. Chances, she thought, were life”

— Veronica Rossi

“Living, now, had become not simple existence that one took for granted, but a bonus, a gift, with every day that lay ahead an…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“There were times when life’s problems were convincingly outweighed by its possibilities, and this, she felt, was one.”

— Alexander McCall Smith