Quotes About Adversity

Puisque j'ai survécu à cette année-là, disait-il toujours, je survivrai à n'importe quoi.

most of us learn to trust, not because we're noble, brave, or godly, and certainly not because we have it together, but when we don't have any other choice.

Wisdom that isn't distilled in our own crucible can't help us.

a smart girl is nobody's pushover and nobody's foe. A smart girl is both sword and smile.

Tsunamis. School shootings. Syria. We watch it, we read about it, and then we move on. As a species, we're either very resilient or super callous. I don't know which.

People lose their jobs over this sort of thing. They lose their friends. Their families. They lose everything.

Even the most successful people in this world make mistakes. Often they're just better at correcting them and moving on.

When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.

Good things can come from pain, he said. Not all of it is good, of course, but some of it. And the places it leads are good places, not bad. Never be afraid of the places pain will take you.

Ruthie once said that life isn't pretty, so you gotta hug the ugly out of it. I hung on to that as the days passed. I

every day was bad news and worse than the one before it, and that was all you could expect from life.

You take heart now. Be encouraged. The bad times are really the good times in disguise. And I'm going to get down on my knees tonight and ask God to break through. God is walking with you

There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.

He was well aware, like Hugo, that good people were usually relentlessly persecuted, were rarely rewarded for virtue, and that those who held fast to truth and justice often found the way to their own cross.

Obviously, I don't want to be in the box for over a hundred minutes during the season, but at the same time I have to try to play with an edge and battle out there.

If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.

Don't say you want to be an actor and not know how to read a script. Don't give up 15 minutes before the miracle comes. Everyone's career ebbs and flows, especially if you're African American. That's the time to dig in and keep your instrument sharp.

'Darkest Before Dawn,' the short film, is basically the film of a man who faces the darkness when his back is against the wall and just about how miracles come in all forms, and even in your darkest times, it comes.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

I was declared bankrupt a few years ago, which really made me grow up and look in the mirror, face myself, and find strength.

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

I don't like any of the Geto Boys albums at all. Not one. There isn't a Geto Boys album that I like. I didn't learn anything from it, and it was a bad time in life for me too. With the label, with life, whatever... it's a point in my life where I was the most miserable.

I thought 'Game of Thrones' had this challenge in filming, and it's one of those things you think, 'It can't get worse than this,' because it's really cold, and you're in pain, and it's miserable.