Quotes about Adversity

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

We all have within us the ability to move from struggle to grace.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

I think one of my best qualities is my ability to empathize with people. Perhaps it's because my journey has been so bumpy.

As African American, gay drag queens, we live with more adversity and challenges.

This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.

The reality is we live in a world that's filled with stuff, but quitting is not an option.