Quotes about Adversity

I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

It's one thing to talk the talk; it's another thing to walk after getting whacked with a coconut.

When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting.

Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.

Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.

A lot of guys that were trailblazers, if we were to go back to the actual time, were just really scared and had no choice, but the water's rushing in, and you either swim or sink.

Fame can be a double-edged sword, and you have to take the bad with the good. The highs are incredibly high, and the lows can be incredibly low.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.]

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in other places, or that you can somehow by cleverness or righteousness avoid it. No, it will happen, and to you! Losing, failing, falling, sin, and the suffering that comes from those experiences—all of this is a necessary and even good part of the human journey.