Quotes About Adversity

I'm practically broke and homeless. This fatal city, Antioch, has devoured all my money: this fatal city with its extravagant life.

Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.

I believe that close association with one who refuses to compromise with circumstances he does not like, is an asset that can never be measured in terms of money.

the way i see it, hard times aren't only about money, or drought, or dust. hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

If you give people unlimited time and money, they'll do things the same old way. But if they have to achieve the goal in a brief time, they'll either give up or try something new.

Even though I had a lucrative contract with MGM, I had a husband who was drinking and gambling our money away faster than I could make it.

Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

Bankruptcy is like losing your virginity. It doesn't hurt the next time.

For as the old saying is, When house and land are gone and spent Then learning is most excellent.

When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money.

My best country record only sold 200,000 copies. I didn't have enough money for the band and the arrangements and the costumes and all. I had to move into wider fields.

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

I have plenty of enemies... among artists who resent my earning a living. They think I should go off and starve while painting something 'significant.

The poor are the only ones who suffer. And they're used to it.

God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the money, things get hard, they get weak and quit going to church. Quit serving God like they did.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.

I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.

When I talk about money. All you see is the struggle. When I tell ya, I'm livin' large, you tell me, its trouble.

I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.

Money definitely changes your lifestyle. But the things you go through makes who you are. Your experiences, they travel with you.

I just thank God that I didn't grow up with so much money or privilege because you had to create ways to make it happen.