Quotes About Adversity

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

Courage is not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on in spite of it.

His raider captain, Tellor, stood beside him at the command center more accurately described as a table one of the junior personnel had scavenged. Resourceful

I'm not asking you to make the mud and the mire go away; just make the Rock, Jesus, more evident and beautiful to all. Cause our feet to stand upon Jesus, the only firm foundation in this life and the life to come, in times of great adversity, in times of great prosperity, and in all the in-between times.

It was good for me to be afflicted so that I might learn your decrees. (Ps. 119:71 NIV)

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Wyrd oft nered unfaegne, eorl, ponne his ellen deah. Often, for undaunted courage, fate spares the man it has not already marked.

Anything can happen, the tallest towers Be overturned, those in high places daunted, Those overlooked regarded.

Terrible times. I managed to come through But I never healed. My whole life has been Just one long cruel parody.

Well has it been said: the man obsessed Is a cock of the walk in a hurry towards the worst.

Ben didn't want to lose money. He had had a rough time during the depression.

To be sane in a mad time is bad for the brain, worse for the heart.

I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral.

WindClan has traveled a long time. It's nearly a moon since ShadowClan drove us from our home. The weather is turning colder, and leaf-bare will be here soon. We have no choice but to stay.

The easiest time to be faithful is during a time of crisis. The hardest time for faith is when all is well.

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

There are two key lessons: a) The only way to survive in business is to be profitable, unless you have an unlimited amount of money; b) Get through your difficulty and learn to do better next time.

You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.

So many people dwell on negativity and I've survived by ignoring it: it dims your light and it's harder each time to turn the power up again.

Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.

My favorite movie of all time is 'Rocky.'

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.