Adversity Quotes

"My parents gave me the pep talk when I started school, the same speech all black parents give their kids: You're gonna have to be bigger, badder, better, just to be considered equal. You're gonna have to do twice as much work and you're not going to get any credit for your accomplishments or for overcoming adversity. Most black people grow accustomed to the fact that we have to excel just to be seen as existing, and this is a lesson passed down from generation to generation."

- Gabrielle Union

"When you adopt a dog, you have a lot of very good days and one very bad day."

- W. Bruce Cameron

"Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really."

- Agnes Sligh Turnbull

"If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness."

- Marjorie Garber

"It's not you I hate, Cardassian. It's what I became because of you."

- MOB

"Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched."

- Guy de Maupassant

"In wartime, the loudest patriots are the greatest profiteers."

- August Bebel

"During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism."

- Howard Thurman

"The problem with patriotism is that it invariably leads to war."

- Albert Einstein

"The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."

- Leo Tolstoy

"Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism – and wars."

- Dale Carnegie

"What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?"

- Langston Hughes

"My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes."

- L. M. Montgomery

"Suspense is worse than disappointment."

- Robert Burns

"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired, women, because they are curious: both are disappointed."

- Oscar Wilde

"It was one of those times you feel a sense of loss, even though you didn't have something in the first place. I guess that's what disappointment is- a sense of loss for something you never had."

- Deb Caletti

"Disappointment is anger for wimps."

- Miles Davis

"Life is full of disappointment, and I’m full of life."

- Robert Byrne

"Evil lurks where disappointment lodges."

- George Foreman

"When disappointment festers in our soul, it leads to discouragement."

- Joyce Meyer

"When your day is a museum of disappointments, hanging from events that were outside of your control, when you feel like your guardian angel put in his two weeks notice two months ago and just decided not to tell you."

- Rudy Francisco

"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment."

- Haruki Murakami

"The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes."

- Thomas Hardy

"Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them."

- Jodi Picoult

"When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say and you don’t have to listen. Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into yesterday’s mental garbage to create today’s experiences?"

- Louise Hay

"Oh, the traffic, the rush, the paper works, the tidal wave of projects – Yes, my friend, that is Monday. It wouldn’t be called Manic Mondays for no reason."

"A toddler can do more in one unsupervised moment than most people can do all day."

- Unknown

"Disappointment is a troll that follows you around the house, cluttering things you have put in order, moving the things you need around, and generally disrupting life. Best way to get rid of this pest is to face it head on and tell it to go away before it multiplies."

- Unknown

"Nothing hurts more than being disappointed by the single person you thought would never hurt you."

- Unknown

"Disappointment is an ominous cloud of self-doubt and fear which must be broken through at all costs."