Quotes About Adversity

The Russians dashed on towards that thin redline streak tipped with a line of steel.

Be calm and strong and patient. Meet failure and disappointment with courage. Rise superior to the trials of life, and never give in to hopelessness or despair. In danger, in adversity, cling to your principles and ideals. Aequanimitas! Sir William Osler.

Once in a while you will stumble upon the truth but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing had happened.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.

You have enemies? Good! That means you've stood up for something sometime in your life.

My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.

Tolerating cracks is part of being alive.

In good times I cry often, shedding tears easily, but when times are bad, my ducts go dry and I almost never weep.

Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.

Because of my parents' love of democracy, we came to America after being driven twice from our home in Czechoslovakia - first by Hitler and then by Stalin.

In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

My dad died when I was 17. He had heart and other problems. He was a good father, lots of love. But he was affected by it. When he died, mom picked up the reins and raised six boys all on her own.

I love to be challenged because I'm wrong a lot of the times.

I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Of all the uses of adversity which are sweet, none are sweeter than those which grow out of disappointed love.

I love anybody who has convictions enough to make mistakes because only people who make mistakes get into enough trouble to be called drama, I think.

If we don't allow ourselves to experience joy and love, we will definitely miss out on filling our reservoir with what we need when. . . . hard things happen.

I am the common man. I'm polite, I love my family and I play by the rules. And sometimes I get pushed around. That's my lifestyle, and that's what I try to bring to characters.

Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.