Quotes About Adversity

My best life advice:Take the high road.No matter how much stress, or strain, or consternation you are facing, take the high road.You will never regret it.

Stress comes from within; it is your reaction to circumstances, not the circumstances themselves.

Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

Mozart. Vivaldi. Van Gogh. Stretched their genius on struggle, stress and survival.

Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

I'll tell you how I handle stress. I say-This too shall pass. You've got to try to stay cool and admit when you're wrong, and tell them when you're right.

It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

Stress is caused by our resistance to what already is. Even our difficulties we need to accept. My greatest wish is to do God's will.

Stress exacerbates any problem, whether it's diabetes, heart trouble, MS, or whatever.

Whenever I do the sign of the cross, it always brings comfort in situations when you are faced with adversity and stress.

Do the tasks that causes you the most fear, anxiety, or stress - and get over it.

Stress is an unstranformed opportunity for empowerment.

But it turns out that people who are grounded and secure don't change much under stress. That's what being grounded means.

Nietzsche famously said "Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger." But what he failed to stress is that it almost kills you.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

You need to be able to manage stress because hard times will come, and a positive outlook is what gets you through.

I often say that good crisis management is good decision-making under stress.

Being a comedian, you're under pressure. You have to deal with stress and pressure to perform - to deal with pressure without stress.

Any of us are capable of doing things we're not proud of under the wrong kind of stresses.

There's very few people, who really thrive creatively under great stress and conflict.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Problems can be experienced as... a chance for renewal rather than stress.

It isn't stress that makes us fall - it's how we respond to stressful events.