Quotes About Adversity

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch - what make you go beyond the norm.

I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.

I am thankful for all the hard times I've been through and all the tears I've cried because that has put me as closer to God and made me the strong woman I am today!

Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now.

Black women are the strongest most hardworking people on earth.

After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

Some women are lost in the fire. Some women are built from it.

If you can't make it better, you can laugh at it.

I was raised almost entirely on turnips and potatoes, but I think that the turnips had more to do with the effect than the potatoes.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Women are like tea bags.They do not know how strong they are until they get into hot water.

You fail, and then what? Life goes on. It's only when you risk failure that you discover things.

There's nothing wrong with being fired.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.

Growth and comfort do not coexist.

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

Every time I fail I assume I will be a stronger person for it.

Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.

[Eve] sees through Satan's disquise of clever hypocrisy, identifies him, and exposes him for what he is...[ever since Satan has] had it in for women.