Quotes About Adversity

What is important is not what happens to us, but how we respond to what happens to us.

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us

Genius is not a gift, but the way a person invents in desperate circumstances.

What a torment it is not to be rich! It gets one into such abject situations.

Never were we freer than under the German Occupation.

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Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

The laws of God work in the same way as the laws of Science. You cannot break them - you can only break yourself against them.

No matter who says what, you should accept it with a smile and do your own work.

So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.

It is hard work to be good when you are very little and very hungry, and have many sticks to beat you, and no mother's lips to kiss you.

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

As you've probably discovered, great work makes us uncomfortable.

Remarkable work often comes from making choices when everyone else feels as though there is no choice.

I have seen great jazz musicians die obscure and drinking themselves to death and not really being able to get any work and working in small, funky jazz clubs.

Some people can only be happy being a star. What happens if and when the work dries up?

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

Hard toil can roughen form and face, And want call quench the eye's bright grace.

You learn your limitations and then you try to work within them.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

What rings true is that everything we grow through in life will work out for our good.

Every successful work of God must have opposition.

There's an old saying that when it gets tough the tough get going. You have to work your way through these things.