Quotes About Adversity

I was hungry. I was cold. But I was also free. Free not to get up in the morning, not to go to bed at night, free to get drunk if I liked, to dream... to hope.

A man once told me that you step out of your door in the morning, and you are already in trouble. The only question is are you on top of that trouble or not?

Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.

The next time your core beliefs are challenged - try being curious instead of furious.

Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning.

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.

I learned more from the mistakes than from the good things.

Successful people keep moving, even when they are discouraged and have made mistakes.

"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial

Losing the Super Bowl is worse than death. You have to get up the next morning.

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

As we shave it happens that we cut ourself with the razor blade; this does not mean that we must not shave in the morning any longer. It is the same thing for yoga.

I don't think you ever silence critics. They'll be critics in the morning. That's part of the deal.

If you're going to fail...FAIL FORWARD

When you get up in the morning, you merely put on your clothes. When a colored man gets up in the morning, he puts on his armor.

A man should swallow a toad every morning to be sure of not meeting with anything more revolting in the day ahead.

So much of life is about attitude and how we handle what life throws our way. Life is good - even when a situation appears to be the worst.

Truly I have looked in the very heart of darkness and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning.

serious difficulties don't vanish by themselves, they are standing around your bed when you open the eyes the next morning.

I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.

Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face removed by a cat, both on the same morning, can temporarily undermine the self-control of any man.

I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.