Quotes About Adversity

Don't run away from it, just because it's difficult.

manage ourselves when we are in their grip.

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

Where there are problems, it is implied that there are solutions; sometimes the solution is to endure the problem, and one problem passes and another appears. But there are some insoluble predicaments which we must transcend.

Prosperity often subverts what adversity cannot destroy

You see, every star hits periods of hardship, It takes a brighter light to inspire them through the darkness.

When you know you're capable of dealing with whatever comes, you have the only security the world has to offer.

Never focus your attention on anyone's weaknesses — his temper, sloppiness, poor logic, dishonesty, whatever. Recognize these shortcomings, take them into consideration, but don't waste your time complaining about them. Instead, pay attention to what your actions should be in order to deal with him.

I don't really get shaken very much. People could heckle me, a spotlight could go out, I could forget a lyric... I'm not operating on somebody's brain, you know what I mean? So I just think it's all funny.

survival is triumph enough.

So far as I can see, nothing good in the world has ever been done by well-rounded people. The good work is done by people with jagged, broken edges, because those edges cut things and leave an imprint, a design.

Survival is truimph enough.

The most extraordinary thing about the oyster is this. Irritation gets into his shell. He does not like them. But when he cannot get rid of them he uses the irritation to do the lovelist thing an oyster ever has the chance to do. If there are irritations in our lives today, there is only one prescription: make a pearl. It may have to be a pearl of patience, but…make a pearl. -In the Treasure Chest, ed. Charles L. Wallis

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Once when Ole Bull, the great violinist, was giving a concert in Paris, his "A" string snapped and he transposed the composition and finished it on three strings. That is life- to have your "A" string snap and finish on three strings.

The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.

They should know that just because things get difficult, it's no reason to believe God is on vacation.

There isn't a person alive who has not been afraid at one time or another. It is only the brave man who can feel fear and still go forward.

Fear is a good emotion to cultivate; it keeps you alert. Without it few survive.

You can't have anything worthwhile without difficulties.

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties.

How many times do you have to get hit over the head until you figure out who's hitting you.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it's over, it isn't so bad.