Quotes About Adversity

Character, not circumstance, make a man.

But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.

Courage is not merely one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at its testing point.

Our lives may be swayed by gales of adversity, we may be drowning in the floodwaters of helplessness, but with strong hope we continue the search to find a way when all evidence shouts, 'Quit.

You must come to the self-realization that even though you couldn't control any of the crazy things that have happened in your life, your choices in response to those things are what have led you down this path you don't like.

Never give in to a feeling of despair, fear, or defeat. Lead your negative emotion. Never allow those emotions to lead you. Always lead them by quickly moving in the opposite direction those emotions insist you should go!

In times of adversity, you don't have a problem to deal with; you have a choice to make.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

If life gets tough, what do you have that you can always count on? A Your fingers. 'But we have to write this book,' says Terry.

Assume any career moves you make won't go smoothly. They won't. But don't look back.

You know, my world may look like a pile of shit, but at least I sometimes get to sit on top of it

We certainly wouldn't practise carrying it now: that would be a bit like practising being wet, cold and hungry, which wouldn't achieve anything.

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Experience is often a brutal teacher. Experience eats up you most valuable commodity:time. Learning from experience can eat up years. It can steal an entire stage of life.

For this reason it is the dark that provides the leader with his greatest opportunities. It is your response to the dark that determines in large part whether or not you will be called on to lead. For the darkness is what keeps the average person from stepping outside the security of what has always been.

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

Truly adversity is a great winnower of friendships. It is but the staunchest who will stick to us through our troubles, while those who love us for what we have, instead of what we are, fall away like chaff at the first breath of ill-fortune.

We keep the wolves outside by living well.

I don't begrudge you my company, my darling. We must all make do with what rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it!