Quotes About Adversity

You think in a different way when you don't have any money. The joy of poverty is that you use your imagination to come up with stuff.

As a kid I learned notions of art and notions of not having any money.

To get a human through a life, lives of broken bones, knock-me-over-with-a-feather susceptibility to myriad viruses, and whatever else might befall someone will cost money.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

When you have no money, you need invention.

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold.

When I was in college, I lost my scholarship one year. I had enough money for tuition, but not room and board. So I camped in the hills.

Money, it is often said, does not bring happiness; it must be added, however, that it makes it possible to support unhappiness with exemplary fortitude.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.

My worst holiday was in Athens when I was a young drama student at Rada in 1965. I ran out of money. I had my things stolen and I wasn't able to speak a word of the language.

Money doesn't bring courage, I learned. It's the other way around. Once I took that lesson to heart, I began to rebuild my life.

Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.'

Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest.

It is not the obstacles that is the mountainbut it is our lack of knowledge of how to deal with the obstacles and how to overcome it

If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.

We should be disciplined and responsible and then our prosperity will be stable despite any economic crisis, inflation or a change of government

In life there will be so many pressing demands, and there will be a mass of pressure on you, but you must be so disciplined so that you can go through these things and come out victorious

Riches bring only problems and sorrows to people

When starting out, don't worry about not having enough money. Limited funds are a blessing, not a curse. Nothing encourages creative thinking in quite the same way.

After everything I'd lived through, I was not going to be reduced to a one-sentence definition.

And there is good money to be made when things are bad.

I never been in no situation where havin' money made it any worse.

Many people who try to do big bold things in the world find out it's not about the money or the technology: It's about the regulatory hurdles that will try and stop you.