Quotes About Adversity

Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like crazy underneath."

There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never been in trouble.

Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

When things come to the worst, they generally mend.

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.

Misfortunes come to all men.

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

I thought I had reached a point in life where everything would be smooth. But it is not. It just gets more jagged and pitted and filled with turns that take you into the dark recesses of your mind. It never seems to get easy.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met man who had no feet.

I survived my childhood by birthing many separate identities to stand in for one another in times of great stress and fear.

Every problem in your life goes away in front of a bull because this problem, the bull, is bigger than all other problems. Of course, I have fear, but it is fear that I will fail the responsibility I have taken on in front of all those people-not fear of the bull.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

I feel when people say 'bigger and better' they should say 'bigger and badder'.

Get into the habit of looking for the silver lining of the cloud, and, when you have found it, continue to look at it, rather than at the leaden gray in the middle. It will help you over many hard places.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step toward something better.

There's nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren't going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.

When it goes wrong, you feel like cutting your throat, but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.