Quotes About Adversity

Some things require the dark night to bloom.

Sue Townsend

Sue Townsend

Had a note from Mr Cherry asking me when I can resume my paper round. I sent a note back to say that due to my mother's desertion I am still in a mental state. This is true. I wore odd socks yesterday without knowing it. One was red and one was green. I must pull myself together. I could end up in a lunatic asylum.

Looking back, I realize it was the first time I experienced how cruel life can be. How swiftly a simple act can change in.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

You always say 'I'll quit when I start to slide', and then one morning you wake up and realize you've done slid.

The machine will grind you down, but the machine is not bigger than the imagination. Rome fell in a day. We know this.

Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes its built on catastrophe.

If a root is pulled out, don't think that it happened because of the strength of the wind, but because you didn't make the root grow deeply enough.

Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

Because it is psychological. I see the boys in the park, the young boys, smoking and playing basketball when they should be in school. I couldn't understand why when I first arrived. Now, I am starting to see. It is because they have been told in school, in their community, on the street, that they are nothing, and so they have started to believe it. Once that happens, it is over. You can't be a man, a husband, a father. You can't do anything, once you start to believe that.

I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more. Women's rights are nothing less.

No one stands on a rug that cannot be pulled out from under her...

Consider what really makes up your self-worth—like your caring heart or your ability to stand tall in the face of adversity

Life's sloppy...You think you know how tomorrow's going to be, you've made your plans, everything is set in place, and then the unimaginable happens. Life catches you by surprise. It always does. But there's good mixed in with the bad. It's there. You just have to recognize it.

Great, the worlds coming to an end and we're fixing it with Band-Aids

But a strange thing happens when your worst nightmare is realized: nothing much is left to scare you.

Psychological studies have recently shown that adversity can be a more powerful motivator than support. Successful people often remember being told that they could not do what they have, in fact, done brilliantly. Stubbornness drove them. Their parents or teachers have told them they will never make any money, or that they will never get a college degree, or that they will never marry and have children. The urge to prove authority wrong has often spurred human beings to unusual success.

You expect to have to soak up some pressure when you are playing Manchester City away from home.

Nothing is as hard as working on a British soap in this industry.

Getting trouble is always a problem when you are young and in a soap.

I feel like no-one likes a sob story. No-one likes to hear Moanie Margaret.

I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.