Quotes About Adversity

I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.

People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

There is really only one way to deal with Misery. Accept her presence. Like most experiences in life, we must acknowledge the passage gracefully and let her move through our lives because she brings with her a hidden gift.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Success and failure are emotional and physiological experiences. We need to deal with them in a way that is present and calm.

Each season was different and presented its own set of circumstances and challenges.

My grandmother adopted me for a while, and I was bouncing around a bit. I was always helped by the PTA and church groups with food and Christmas presents. It's a hard cycle to break, because when you don't have the resources, it's almost impossible.

Persevere and preserve yourselves for better circumstances.

Bottom line is that there's bad people everywhere. And every now and again, we are going to have to step to them to make sure that we preserve our way of life.

George Washington sets the nation on its democratic path. Abraham Lincoln preserves it. Franklin Roosevelt sees the nation through depression and war.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

During the years of my presidency, I lived a tough and difficult life.

Great presidents, and even those not so great, never complained about the hands they were dealt. Just the opposite. They assumed they were in the big chair to meet big challenges, no matter how difficult.

Too few presidents have steeped themselves not just in Lincoln's words but his deeds, which is why Obama's acquaintance with the great man is so compelling - especially since, like President-elect Lincoln, Obama will take office at a perilous time.

Something that I've told all of my young artists is, there are going to be haters. You're going to read things that are going to hurt you. It's not going to make any sense. Just know that it's out there and that it's really easy to just press 'delete.'

I lost my job in the most public way possible, and the press had a field day with it all over the world. And guess what? I'm still here.

When guys say at the press conference, 'I'm not scared' - now, for a guy to tell me he's not scared of me means that you are scared.

I was driving in Norway and found myself on pure ice. I lightly pressed the brakes but I still started skidding. The car spun round and round and collided head on with another car coming in the other direction. There was a five or ten-second period where I blacked out.

It's hard when you get down. You start pressing a little bit trying to get back in the game.

Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.

One way to get high blood pressure is to go mountain climbing over molehills.

I like pressure.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

Pressure just makes you go a little more. I kind of like pressure.