Quotes About Adversity

When the going gets tough, the tough get going!" ~Billy Ocean~

Each difference in a relationship represents an opportunity for the participants to grow and stretch.

Human infants," writes psychologist Martin Seligman, "begin life more helpless than infants of any other species. In the course of the next decade or two, some acquire a sense of mastery over their surroundings; others acquire a profound sense of helplessness.

he) had his own set of rules: "ride clean and ride fair." Asked by reporters how he managed to keep calm despite the attacks by other cyclists, Marshall answered, "I simply ride away.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

won't be easy to get to," he muttered, his own voice stark against the silence. "Not easy at all." The man lived in a fortress of

My dad died when I was three so my mom had to raise four kids on her own, and I think there's a part of me that pulls upon having watched my mom do that our whole lives. She had to make it work.

His spirits were too elastic to know the meaning of depression, and the setback had intriguing angles to it which he was broad-minded enough to appreciate as an artist.

Everybody's scared, but if you don't let your fears stop you, that's bravery.

When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best.

Whatever we did see and endure in those stairs, we were the lucky ones. For some, there were no stairs and no exit at all.

Leslie Hulet Stahl

Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

Even evils are transitory. So where to battle?

Mediocrity wants to be your friend. Be unfriendly.

Suffering toughens the spirit and tenderizes the soul.

Joy expressed during a tragedy is, in a way, it's own protest. (In reference to not cancelling the Tony Awards becsuse of the Orlando shootings)

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

As the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.

There are no weaknesses which we so thoroughly despise as those to which ourselves have yielded.

It is said that springs of sweet, fresh water pool up amid the saltiness of the oceans, that the fairest Alpine flowers bloom in the wildest and most rugged mountain passes, and that the most magnificent psalms arose from the most profound agonies of the soul.

A hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head winds right for royal sails. Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one wins the greatest victory until he has walked the winepress of woe.