Quotes About Adversity

I had to escape the destruction of my fathers bankruptcy and all that difficulty.

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but I went to Hunter College. I had no money and I couldn't speak English.

I never complain. I chose the road of fighting with the Ukrainian oligarchy in 1996, and have paid for this with my freedom and that of my husband, my father and my close friends.

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

After my father died, we were pretty much wiped out financially as a family, so I decided to give finance a try.

What we should really fear is not failure but the heart that is no longer brave enough to take risks and embrace challenges

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Somewhere in the fear and chaos, there is a clarity that few will ever experience.

Heroes and cowards feel exactly the same fear. Heroes just react to it differently.

The difference between living and feeling alive, is using your fear as fuel to fly.

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart by the one who knows what you could be and fears it.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

A man who is afraid will do anything.

The whole point of courage, to overcome your fear. That's the interesting thing, when courage bleeds through the fear.

No challenge can stop you if you have the courage to keep moving forward in the face of your greatest fears and biggest challenges. Be courageous.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It's one thing to hate failure, it's another to fear it.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.

Worry, doubt, fear and despair are the enemies which slowly bring us down to the ground and turn us to dust before we die.

Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.

Courage is not the absence of fear...