Quotes About Adversity

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

I hated to fight all the time just to enjoy my day. Fighting wasn't the kind of thing that I enjoyed, but I grew to enjoy it because I did it so long.

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown.

Patience is the ability to suffer a long time under the mistreatment of others without growing resentful or bitter.

Every time you fail, you learn more.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

I'll never be considered one of the all-time greats; maybe not even one of the all-time goods. But I'm one of the all-time survivors.

We're obviously having a tough time, like the other teams did.

Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates.

If I had a nervous breakdown every time something awful happened in the world, I'd be crazier than a shithouse rat.

I grew up as a really sick kid; I had really bad childhood asthma and was at home all the time in New York.

An enemy might at any time become a friend, but while an enemy was an enemy he should be trodden on and persecuted.

All men fall. It's but time and method that differ.

We were raised right in the heart of the Bogside. Everything was so bad at the time that Mammy would bring us to the pantomime, circus, concerts because we were so confined at home.

Out of Gas. I haven't heard that one in a long time.

Any time you're throwin dirt you're losin ground.

You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

It was frustrating because I didn't do anything, ... I was at the wrong place at the wrong time, and he decided to punish me. I couldn't do anything about it.

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

I once read that more millionaires per capita were created during the Great Depression than at any other time in history.

Who could not be moved by the sight of that poor, demoralized rabble, outwitted, outflanked, outmanoeuvered by the U.S. military? Yet, given time, I think the press will bounce back.

You need the willingness to fail all the time.