Quotes About Adversity

He shall fare well who confronts circumstances aright.

We cannot solve life's problems except by solving them.

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school.

It is to live that requires courage, not to die.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

But there were worse things than disappointment, and I'd lived through several of them already.

Courage is to walk hand in hand with the fear!

Because it doesn't take much courage to fight when you still believe you can win. What takes real courage is to keep fighting when all hope is gone.

People are capable of doing an awful lot when they have no choice and I had no choice. Courage is when you have choices.

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

there was nothing like necessity to supply a lack of nerve.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

There has been no lack of courage in Ireland; there never is, but even our courage has a fatal quality.

Laughter in the face of danger is a mark of courage.

If you have decided to sail to the sea with great courage and determination, even the storm on the horizon will step aside!

Our worst foes are not belligerent circumstances, but wavering spirits.

What you'll need most is courage. It is not an easy path that you've set your foot upon.

When asked what it takes to succeed in the acting profession, Bette Davis would answer, "The courage to be hated."

When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.

The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.

Everybody's frightened a bit. But how many of us just go through the fear and do it anyway?

Most courage comes from being too tired and hungry to be afraid anymore.