Quotes About Adversity

I look at my grandparents and what they dealt with in the Japanese internment in Arizona. That sense of perseverance, of making the best out of an incredibly bad situation, has always been something I drew inspiration from. I always ask myself, 'What in the world do I have to complain about?'

People said 'Mimi doesn't know how to act and her diction is bad,' but my perseverance helped me overcome my shortcomings and here I am today.

It's very important to go through periods where you sound just rotten and you know it, and you have to persevere or give up.

You can put me in a cage, on a ladder, in any kind of match, and I will persevere. I will find a way.

I'm not easily scared; from the age of 8, I learned what it means to have everything you know taken away and what it means to persevere. I approach politics the same way.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

Persevering is a fight. That's what a fight is. You face something, you persevere through it, you meet it head on.

Whatever team I go to is going to be a challenge at the beginning and I'm going to have to persevere through it.

What we resist persists.

I tried chemo, but chemo and I didn't agree, so we didn't persist.

In my case, I got hit a lot by bullies when I was a child, and so I naturally bristle against anybody who abuses power. And that seems to make me rather persistent when it comes to exposing the abuse of power.

Circumstances don't make a person; they reveal him or her.

I'm a suck-it-up-and-move-on kind of person. Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

I like the imp / in impossibility

I've had at least my share of tragedy, but I have had far more than my share of happiness.

In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

But one must go where one's road leads, even when it's a distressing road.

Hasta ese momento habían cocinado la carne o la habían secado al sol, pero ahora no quedaba otra alternativa que comérsela húmeda y cruda a medida que la iban cortando, y como tenían tanta hambre, muchos comieron grandes pedazos que tuvieron que masticar y saborear. Para

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.

Losing one glove is certainly painful, but nothing compared to the pain, of losing one, throwing away the other, and finding the first one again.

ON PROBLEMS Our choicest plans have fallen through, our airiest castles tumbled over, because of lines we neatly drew and later neatly stumbled over.

A WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT Stomach-ache can be a curse; heart-ache may be even worse; so thank Heaven on your knees if you've got but one of these.

BRAVE To be brave is to behave bravely when your heart is faint. So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.