Quotes About Adversity

Well, long way from home and, Can't sleep at all. You know another mule, Is kickin in your stall.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again. Heartbroke That's serious. Lose a few bucks. That's not.

When it's on us, seems like the storm will never pass. But it always does.

A lot of people make money off of fear and negativity and any way they can feed it to you is to their benefit in a lot of ways. You can't avoid it completely; you have to be open enough that shit doesn't stick on you, it goes through, because you are gonna be hit and bombarded all the time with negativity... You just let things go on through without trying to stop them or block them.

The bat is gone, but the smile remains.

Ironically, later we used the money that we were able to bring to the camp to wipe our bottoms. We simply didn't have any other paper. We tore ten-guilder notes into quarters and then we could use them four times. That was just fine, because it's not pleasant to have a dirty behind.

I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

During the long healing process, I fell back on my Cherokee ways and adopted what our elders call "a Cherokee approach" to life. They say it is "being of good mind." That means one has to think positively, to take what is handed out and turn it into a better path.

Despite everything, they tend to view economic poverty as a barrier and a challenge, not a state of being.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.

Nobody roots for Goliath.

We will speak of what we must do concerning the Frenchman, who now comes as many as the locusts—who drinks the water, burns the wood, and kills the buffalo of our hunting grounds, so that the Shoshone people may one day have not enough to eat.

You can do anything, be anything," his father often said, "if you're willing to accept what comes

To be defeated by superior numbers, that was only physical. To give up your spirit, that truly would be death. He

Out here we go hungry sometimes. There we would beg, humiliate ourselves, get robbed, and then starve. Now

You can do anything, be anything," his father often said, "if you're willing to accept what comes with it." All

General Crook had said when a reporter asked him what was the hardest thing about fighting Indians. Replied Three Stars, "Knowing you're wrong." Lieutenant

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.