Quotes About Adversity

It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp.

We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.

The foremost art of kings is the power to endure hatred.

The quality of government, I suppose, is determined not by what happens, but by how you react to what happens.

I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

Even when governments take the right steps to reform, these can be negatively impacted by events outside their control.

I make my weaknesses my strengths and my stengths stronger.

You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.

Don't be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

Everything that's difficult you should be able to laugh about.

You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

I wish that someone had said to me that it's normal to feel lost for a little while.

The important thing is the educational experience itself — how to survive it.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones. God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer. . . Turn everything to profit as the grocer does in his shop.

There are no great people in this world, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet.

Even if I were knocked down by one gunshot it wouldn't affect our democracy and I wasn't knocked down and I have great confidence in our democracy and in Taiwan and in the people of Taiwan.

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy.

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

The perfect life is the combination of great moments and bad ones, and under that point of view, my life is fantastic, because I've certainly hit more than one bump.

There is nothing so dreadful as a great victory--except a great defeat.

Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. Great faith must have great trials.