Quotes About Adversity

You wish to be a hero, but you do not know what a hero is. You think a hero is one who wins. But a hero must be prepared to lose,

Maybe she was crazy, but she wasn't stupid. She'd seen Terminator 2. She wasn't going out like Sarah Connor.

More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.

let Him down. But what else is new? And if you don't like what I just said, tough. That's the God I believe in and that's

Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

We change for the good so long as good exists around us.

Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.

Well first of all, I'd just like to say that 2005 was a great year, if you like swimming through crap.

Film and television were out. I was 24, and it went on until I was 36. For an actor, those are your years. I got a great urgency and education during the blacklist, and it made me grow up in a way I never could have before, and in very good ways, too.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can't stay down. We can't allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn't think we could be that strong.

The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

The good Lord made us all out of iron. Then he turns up the heat to forge some of us into steel.

It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us.

Let us not pray to be sheltered from dangers but to be fearless when facing them.

Sometimes bad things happen to good people. We don't know the meaning of all things, but we know God loves His children! And because He loves us, He will never desert us.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

My phone was not ringing very much at the time after USC, and that was a very humbling experience after being let go there and to go through that process. You start calling a lot of people that don't call you back all of a sudden, and you realize things about people.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.