Quotes About Adversity

In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.

Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

It is not what happens that determines the major part of your future. What happens, happens to us all. It is what you do about what happens that counts.

You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.

Even in my darkest times I knew I had a good future ahead of me.

I looked at my father and looked at those dry fields [in Malawi]. It was the future I couldn't accept.

Joe Schenck, a top 20th Century-Fox executive, once said to me that he really believed I had a future, and that was because I was the only girl who could survive so many bad pictures.

Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn't mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in our actions.

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

The difference between animals and humans is that animals change themselves for the environment, but humans change the environment for themselves.

Entrepreneurship is a process, not a job or profession. So be faithful to the process and remember that even when times are bad, the process will give you a glimpse of the future that lies ahead.

The future is bulletproof The aftermath is secondary.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

The nation seems to slouch onward into its uncertain future like some huge inarticulate beast, too much attainted by wounds and ailments to be robust, but too strong and resourceful to succumb.

All that weak people learn from disappointment, is less confidence in future enterprise.

A pioneer is not someone who makes her own soap. She is one who takes up her burdens and walks toward the future.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

On the other hand, permanent causes produce helplessness far into the future, and universal causes spread helplessness through all your endeavors.

Though things change, the future's still inside of me.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

The past shouldn't be forgotten. It should be used as a guide for future situations and not used as a reason to avoid making difficult decisions. There was always a choice.

Sometimes failure makes your future because you set the past on fire.

I am confident that we will meet whatever challenges the future may bring.

When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.