Quotes About Adversity

Try not to worry, as it's sticky and hard to scrub off.

Through the many challenges both professionally and personally, she was the essence of grace, civility and dignity.

There was a senator, I think it was after my pancreatic cancer, who announced with great glee that I was going to be dead within six months. That senator, whose name I have forgotten, is now himself dead, and I am very much alive.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent a lifetime flourishing in the face of adversity before being appointed a Supreme Court justice, where she successfully fought against gender discrimination and unified the liberal block of the court.

Been down so long, down don't worry me.

Cancer changes your life. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, you learn not to waste your time. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, "If it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it."

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Never give up trying, wherever you may be, and whatever may be the threatening ills which rise against you. What if gods and men and the whole world oppose you? There is always some place where the soul can be itself. There is no defeat except from within... There is no power either in heaven or earth that can successfully oppose the onward course of the perfectly determined soul.

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise.

Every day you either see a scar or courage. Where you dwell will define your struggle.

A mother is the truest friend we have; when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends, who rejoiced with us in our sunshine, desert us when troubles thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

Life is tough. If you don't have fun and smile and goof around, life will bog you down real fast...

I'm a dandelion in a harsh wind.

I'm a butterfly that's hurt its wings against a hard world to-night.

As you slide down the banister of life, may the splinters never point your way.

The best surgeon is he that has been well hacked himself.

You can bury a lot of troubles digging in the dirt.

Life lesson from the nursery: Broken crayons can still color.

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!

We won't break, Mary. We look very small, but the reed can carry weight.

Adversity is the first path to truth...

The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.