Dirk Benedict Quotes

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

the worst times come to an end if you can only wait long enough.

This, too, will pass.

There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Whatever may happen, every kind of fortune is to be overcome by bearing it.

When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

Even when bad things happen you have to try to use those bad things in a positive manner and really just take the positive out of it.

Whether we fear pain and suffering or not, pain and suffering will come to everyone. Why not keep our minds focused on where we want to go?

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

To learn patience is not to rebel against every hardship.

We've had some tough times, but we've hung in there.

If you don't like it, learn to love it!

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

I think, most of us, when we look back over our lives, see perhaps moments when everything was dangerous and precarious. We're making all these mistakes, and yet somehow we make it through. It's the making it through that that interests me. To go through the valley of trouble and come out the other side. That's what we all have to do.

The manner in which one endures what must be endured is more important than the thing that must be endured.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.