Quotes About Adversity

El ruiseñor que no puede tolerar la espina, es mejor que nunca hable de la rosa.

I've probably been spit on more that any person alive outside of, I would say, a member of the prison system.

Pensó que al menos tenían un plan. Aunque todo el mundo tenía uno. Hasta que le caía la primera hostia.

When a storm blows, you must stand firm. For it is not trying to knock you down, it is really trying to teach you to be strong.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

It's only natural for people to fall, but there are people who, even if they fall, jump right back up right away and run forward, and there are people who just keep sitting there, crying.

Open wide your heart and accept all the experiences of life. Don't let any moment go half-lived. Live with greatness even in moments of sadness and pain. It is no shame to trip and fall as you walk the path of life. Just get up and continue on your way.

A peaceful life doesn't mean one that has no conflict or struggle . . . a life that avoids conflict never changes. We must live making sounds like the stream of water . . . we can produce beautiful sounds in our lives by colliding with obstacles.

It's only natural to experience times that are difficult and painful, no matter who you are. those are times when anyone would feel tempted to give up on their dream. However, if you try to avoid adversity, you'll end up succumbing to the external environment or to your own limitations. You're able to demonstrate the creative wisdom that can overcome difficulty only if you face it bravely and assertively, instead of avoiding it-and you will grow through your hardship.

Facing the media is more difficult than bathing a leper. —MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA

He will see that I am no coward. If he will call for rain then I will give him a tempest.

Kitty O'Kane dreamed of a kind husband and a just life; what she had was haddock water for supper and a dribble of her own blood, seen at close quarters, on the toe of her father's scuffed boot.

Colin Falconer

You couldn't live other people's lives?you could only fight for your own and struggle to survive.

I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know? And for the last 20 years - you've got to pick yourself up and dust yourself off and then go on your merry way and start again, in a sense, and that's what I've been doing.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

If you get the dirty end of the stick, sharpen it and turn it into a useful tool.

Fear and failure are always present. Accept them as part of life and learn how to manage these realities. Be scared, but keep going. Being scared is usually transient. It will pass. If you fail, fix the causes and keep going.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it." Those words stayed with me.

Butch knew before he walked in that he was entering the lion's den, and he wasn't surprised when he got thrown out. Word quickly spread around the Pentagon, as it always does when things like that happen. Not long after I heard about it I ran into Butch in a hallway. As we walked along, I offered him comforting words. "Hey," he said quietly, "he don't pay me to give him happy talk.

I have always tried to keep my confidence and optimism up, no matter how difficult the situation.

The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.

A more damned crew hell never vomited," the Virginia Company president later said of them.