Quotes About Adversity

I come from a place of lots of turmoil.

We go through periods of turmoil in our nation's history, and one of the remarkable things about the United States is that we seem to keep making our way through those periods.

When in times of turmoil and breakup, do not cut or shave your head, because it will never end well.

I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

Sometimes, it's just your turn to go through hard times.

A lot of people deal with things that are bad. Once you've been through something, you grow from it and you take a lot in. You can always turn it into something positive.

That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you.

I feel like the bad times have fired me up: you have to turn negativity into positivity.

Real faith is when you believe in something that you can't see. When things are going really bad and you can still get up and say I believe that they're gonna get better, that there's a higher lesson to what I'm going through. It can be hard sometimes, and to turn it around like that, that's true faith.

I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.

Getting beaten is sometimes a good thing. If you're a positive person, you can turn it around and make it into a good thing.

You have to turn the lemons life gives you into lemonade, and you have to take time to sit back and enjoy it.

Any day, the tide could turn. You have one or two bad films, and now you've got to make a comeback.

The more you try to turn away from darkness, the more darkness is right against your back.

In the end, it all comes to choices to turn stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

I've struggled so much in my life and I've seen so much of rejection, insult and humiliation, that it can turn into a film.

Before you give up hope, turn back and read the attacks that were made on Lincoln.

I used to turn in, like, 20 money orders to pay my rent - $20 for this one, $30 for this one. I didn't have a checking account.

I would happily help to turn the stone being thrown at me into a boomerang.

In Afghanistan and Iraq we would often get cowardly fire and rounds hitting us from the sides but we just hunker down and keep going, we don't turn the mission around.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

And I'm a believer that you take a negative and turn it into a positive, and as it turned out, it was one of the best things that ever happened to me. And so I do appreciate the Ranger staff and the Ranger organization for giving me that opportunity.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.