Quotes About Adversity

The greatest glory never comes from winning, but from rising each time you fall.

Learn to bear bravely changes of fortune.

I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.

We must learn how to not allow the enemy to have a handhold of our joy and our peace.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies.

Life was an ongoing war against unseen and usually undefined enemies. Your own naiveté was one of those enemies. You had to battle it, and improvise, and guard your back. See

Any idiot can face a crisis—it's day to day living that wears you out.

Our lives will never be perfect no matter how hard we persevere and do good things each day. We may be hurt or humbled, but we will never give up to keep on standing in the midst of hot or cold weather.

The human race is bound to survival, not for self-destruction.

A broken home is not a broken life. A broken promise is not a broken responsibility. But a broken time for everything is a broken future.

Sometimes life can be tough and hard. Technicalities of life make it harder.

Annie Taliaferro had that hammerhead look about her, like a breachy range cow, or a bunch-quitting steer.

Overnight stardom can be harmful to your mental health. Yeah. It has ruined a lot of people.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently." — ... "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." — ... "If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." —

Thick skin is not the thing to have if you are an artist of any kind. It's got to be bulletproof in the sense that it lets the bullet in, and it travels through, and it comes out the other side. I've had everything hurled at me, especially in Australia. Australia is where the tough journalists are.

To resist was fatal, and it was impossible to fly. —EDWARD GIBBON,

Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits.

Noël Coward's comment about the secret of success being the capacity to survive failure.

When confronted with unexpected and ambiguous circumstances, you can either see opportunity or obstacles. I believe that opportunity is present even in chaotic situations.

When life throws you a pit, plant a cherry tree.

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Soyez sûrs qu'une longue patience, que des chagrins jalousement cachés ont formé, affiné, durci cette femme dont on s'écrie 'elle est en acier !' Elle est 'en femme', simplement, et cela suffit

When are a 'lady on your own,' in other words the landlords' abomination, outcast and terror all rolled into one, you take what you find, lodge where you may, and put up with newly plastered walls.