Quotes About Adversity

Whatever you are going through, the sun will come out.

They don't understand why I want to take such a risk. These reactions don't surprise me. A transformation, especially one that is deliberately sought, is often perceived as something disloyal, threatening.

It's easier to surrender to confinement.

Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end. "Gogol

Whenever he is discouraged, I tell him that if I can survive on three continents, then there is no obstacle he cannot conquer.

I think that what happens in my poetic work in the future will depend on my being knocked in the face, and thrown flat, and given cancer, and all kinds of other things short of senile dementia.

The thing that ruined your life makes you good at your work. And then you get rewarded at work, so you don't bother to fix it in your life.

A lot of people who work for WikiLeaks have the same instinct as me: If you are pushed you push back.

I work whenever I'm let.

Leaving a great organization and a lucrative contract is not easy, but it allows me to take a deep breath and work on things that can make me a better driver and a better person.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now.

The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.

When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

That's just the business of boxing. Things just turned out that way. I don't think it was any particular reason. I had opportunities to fight in bigger fights, but things just didn't always work out.

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.

If you work so hard to reach your goal but you lose your pole in the very last run, that's hard to take.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces.

Work makes a callus against grief.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

After 20 years of doing comedy, I find dramatic work more challenging.

We can feel sorry for ourselves or we can put the work boots on and understand the situation and the reality of it all.

That I would rather be in another business where a bad cold wouldn't put me out of work.

If I work with a bad actor, my reaction is to immediately become worse than they are.