Quotes About Adversity

Dark times lie ahead of us and there will be a time when we must choose between what is easy and what is right. -Albus Dumbledore

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It's not true that I'm happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much.

Trying to hit Phil Niekro is like trying to eat jello with chopsticks. Sometimes you get a piece but most of the time you get hungry.

It is time to face real world, even if it is harder and painful. I'd rather fly and crash, than just snuggle and sleep.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Every time I fumble or drop a ball I am embarrassed.

It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?

It seems like every time I start to feel good, something really awful happens. It's like... it's really terrible.

I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.

I think, especially in this time in the world, there is very much a choice between fear and courage, and we all have to pick the courageous route.

If we had a hard time, my mother would sit me down and we would talk about it, and she kept talking and kept processing until we started to laugh about it.

We may be sinking in the North Atlantic in the most famous ship disaster of all time, but God can still use us to reach out and save others through our witness.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

I myself had to grow a longer beard and Afghan clothes. I was in danger of being kidnapped by smugglers, though I didn't know it at the time.

He wrongly accuses Neptune, who makes shipwreck a second time.

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. At the same time, it is often within your power to make them better

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.