Adam Cohen Quotes

I always felt if something bad happens, it can be your best opportunity. The times I was most depressed turned out to be the best things.

Duisburg was the worst industrial, depressive part of Germany. But it was great. We had nothing, but I didn't miss nothing so that was fine.

There are always lessons to be found in the darkest moments. It's a moral obligation to dig deep and find that little glimmer of hope or pearl of wisdom.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

We've gotten through a lot of tough times, and we're going to keep working to make them better. I wish the record was better.

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Even out of severe difficulty, some positive things come.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

There's a lot of growing you can have when you're in adversity, when you're in a losing situation.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

Hard times may have held you down, but they will not last forever. When all is said and done, you will be increased.

It seems that once you achieve something large, the target on your back grows. But I always want to look at life as the glass is half full versus half empty. My father taught me this at an early age - that God is faithful (Romans 8:28), and that in the midst of hardship or attack, God has your back.

If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today

I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.

Because the road is rough and long, Should we despise the skylark's song?

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways which we can grow.

We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

It's almost as difficult to believe that someone with so many trials could harbor such hope, as that there are those with so much advantage who harbor such hopelessness.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.