Challenges & Adversity: Tough Times Quotes

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"Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then"

John Wooden, Coach

John Wooden

"Alas, I emerge from one disaster to fall into a worse"

Pierre Corneille, Dramatist

Pierre Corneille

"Much that we call evil is really good in disguises; and we should not quarrel rashly with adversities not yet understood, nor overlook the mercies often bound up in them"

Horace Mann, Educator

Horace Mann

"Hard times arouse an instinctive desire for authenticity"

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets"

Rudyard Kipling, Writer

Rudyard Kipling

"I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive"

Tyler Perry, Actor

Tyler Perry

"Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"The wisest thing to do if you're living in hell is to make yourself comfortable"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me"

Jim Carrey, Actor

Jim Carrey

"It seems like every time you come up, something happens to bring you back down"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"In my mind, I'm a blind man doin' time"

Tupac Shakur, Musician

Tupac Shakur

"One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

Nadia Comaneci

"Every man has a rainy corner of his life, whence comes foul weather which follows him"

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Every little thing counts in a crisis"

Jawaharlal Nehru, Leader

Jawaharlal Nehru

"My life was pretty rough"

Yoko Ono, Artist

Yoko Ono

"When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges"

Whoopi Goldberg, Actress

Whoopi Goldberg

"It was hell at the time, but after it was over, it was wonderful"

Billy Wilder, Director

Billy Wilder

"Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticized by fools"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these"

Paul Harvey, Journalist

"I do my best work when I am in pain and turmoil"

Sting, Musician

Sting

"We have been through this is biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again"

Everett Dirksen, Politician

Everett Dirksen

"Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving!"

O. Henry, Writer

"One moment, you appear to be riding the crest of a wave, only to have the rug pulled away from you, bringing you back down to earth with a sickening thud"

John Barrow, Politician

"Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard"

Charles Manson, Criminal

"I was born in very sorry circumstances"

Norman Wisdom, Comedian

"There were a lot of drugs. We kinda just passed the time that way. For a couple of years we were all doin' anything we could get our hands on!"

Layne Staley, Musician

Layne Staley

"Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view"

Fridtjof Nansen, Explorer

Fridtjof Nansen

"Telling the world is the most difficult experience of my life, but it is very close to having to live through the experience that occasion this meeting"

Anita Hill, Professor

Anita Hill

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool"

Chinua Achebe, Writer

"Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected"

Jennifer Capriati, Athlete

"Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever"

Isak Dinesen, Writer

"I live in a crazy time"

Anne Frank, Writer

"People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there"

Jimmy Connors, Athlete

Jimmy Connors

"The entire economy, of course, is locked in a down cycle right now. Last time we weathered this was during another Bush presidency in '90. We were locked in it for a year and a half and everyone came out of it"

David Talbot, Journalist

"One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment"

Harold Coffin, Writer

"I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal"

Maria Mitchell, Scientist

"The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

Magic Johnson

"The cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries, and is not yet half full"

Boyle Roche, Politician

Boyle Roche

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