Quotes About Adversity

"To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse, make it feel good, is the great skill."

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems before they arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.

People work harder when conditions are worse.

What was said about all of us? We're stupid. You'll never work in a town again. How do you look your four children in the eye? You've sold your soul. You know, it went on and on.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

If at first you don't succeed, then drag racing isn't for you.

I am worn out by the insults and vexations that this work brings down on us.

Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph

It Is Natural For Everyone Everywhere To Have Peaks And Valleys At Work And In Life.

The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.

Things didn't quite work out like we wanted them too, but... we still have you, and you still have us.

We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.

Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune.

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.

Life is a challenge. Realize that and work, every day, to rise up and meet it.

When bad things happen, it's the time when you get to work in the garden and sort out the pots from the weeds.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions... like a state of sheer terror.

Every true work of God has had its bitter enemies - not only outside, but also inside - just as in the days of Nehemiah.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.