Quotes About Adversity

Everybody's beatable. Mixed martial arts, there's many ways to win, and that also means there are many ways to lose, as well.

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.

To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.

Thou art beaten that thou mayest be better.

Mrs. Patrick Cambell is an aged British battleship sinking rapidly and firing every available gun on her rescuers.

I drew a picture on the back of a calendar in pencil. In those days they used to give out free calendars, I had no art paper, so I took whatever else I could.

Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe.

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

Always face your challenges head on and make them your strengths.

I think the business of music has really taken a huge hit. There's no doubt about it. But an artist is always going to produce their art, their music. They're going to paint, they're going to write.

Nature often lets us down when we most need her; let us turn to art.

Bad things happen, it's your job to overcome them.

When I got into the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, a doctor told me to give up the course as I'd be totally deaf within a couple of years. But I refused to give in.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

I don't think we live in those times when great art comes out of great adversity.

Pain, thou art not an evil

I get to cry to Barbara Walters, when things don't go my way. I'll get community service no matter which laws I break.

Tragedy is something that happens to a lot of people - it's a tragedy if you react with handwringing.

You're laughing at everything that's bringing me down.

Art, if it is art, will develop in whatever circumstances it is placed.

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

Poor England! thou art a devoted deer, Beset with every ill but that of fear. The nations hunt; all mock thee for a prey; They swarm around thee, and thou stand'st at bay.

I may have stumbledand stammered at your unexpected push, but the breezeanchored me and I learnt the art of survival