Quotes About Adversity

To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.

When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.

My parents got divorced and military school gave me a structure. A lot of kids my age were children of divorced parents. They didn't know what to do with the kids.

She grew up hard and she grew up fast, in the age of television.

I have always believed that, in a story, if something traumatic or calamitous enough happens to a kid at a formative age, that will make him or her the adult they become.

The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

I am in the pitiable situation of feeling all the force of temptation without having the strength to succumb to it.

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

Daei's all alone here, with four Chelsea defenders for company.

Whilst you are prosperous you can number many friends; but when the storm comes you are left alone.

The leader is always alone before bad fates.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

Notable characters do not alone bear trouble; they use it.

It is imperative that we recognize that whatever has happened to us has happened to others. They have coped and so must we. We are not alone. Heavenly Father's help is near.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.

Single misfortunes never come alone, and the greatest of all national calamities is generally followed by one greater.

Learn to Lose, Wade to Win.

Get fired, no one will call you a quitter.

My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor, and it's what you need when, well, it's what anyone needs in this world.

Teens like a lot of the same things adults do: smart people doing amazing things against awful odds.