Quotes About Adversity

Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.

There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts.

What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.

For the faithful, our finest hours are sometimes during or just following our darkest hours.

My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.

I'm frightened all the time. But I never let it stop me. Never!

I wonder how many times you have to be hit on the head before you find out who's hitting you? It's about time that the people of America realized what the Republicans have been doing to them.

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated.

Time perfects men as well as destroys them.

But at the end of the day, every star, every person that been iconic, has gone through a time in their lives where it was just bad. Everybody. It just made them better.

Every time I stepped into the ring, somebody wanted to kill me.

Our predecessors overcame many troubles and much suffering, but each time got back up stronger than before.

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

It is true that the sky was always beautiful but I don't remember marvelling at sunset or gazing at the dawn of a new day. Survival does not allow time for poetic reflection.

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion.

How the hell would she support herself and her mother if Agua Dulce's new owner built one of those mega service stations right next door? Or worse yet, right on top of them.

And then sometimes we become one of those people and are amazed, not by our own strength but by that indomitable ability to slog through adversity, which looks like strength from the outside and just feels like every day when it's happening to you.

People go through life thinking they are making decisions, when they're really just making plans, which is not the same thing at all. And along the way, they get a little damaged, lots of tiny cracks, holding together but damaged still.

You know what the opposite of 'rise and shine' is Bridge? 'Good night, and good luck.

It's an essential part of maturing, putting fear aside, because if there's anything that cripples us it is fear.

When you look back on your life there are always times that you remember as the hard times, even if they're the hard times a girl has, not the hard times of a woman, with grief and loss and real hardship.

It's one of the best parts of growing up and growing older, I think, that feeling that you'll just get through one day, and then the next, that a week from Saturday will take care of itself. I couldn't do that when I was younger. I don't know how much of this knowledge grows out of being female and having lived through layers of serial, often contradictory, lives.

All you can do is keep waiting for your time. There is no use protesting. If you have cruel owners, it's your bad luck. I wish I could die now. Only that can put an end to all my miseries.