Naomi Judd Quotes

Things happen to everybody in the course of a lifetime. Relationships end, people die, tragedy befalls everyone. So everyone has this wealth of experience, and the older you are the more you have to draw on.

Adversity is an opportunity for growth. And an opportunity to really know who your friends are.

Experience is a really wonderful thing, and in a way we've been fortunate to have had so many ups and downs in our career, and a lot of struggles and a lot of sacrifices. But again, that's just an athlete's story.

In every relationship you go through really tough times.

It takes experience to get through your lows.

You have to have lived some life. You've got to have paid some dues.

It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.

I've had my ups and downs. My fair share of bumpy roads and heavy winds. That's what made me what I am today.

My experience tells me the hard road is almost always the right road.

I been through living for years. I just ain't dead yet.

Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

Adversity finds at last the man whom she has often passed by.

Extremity is the trier of spirits.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair

When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.

Over the Christmas period, I spent time with both Bob Hawke and Paul Keating, and you listen to stories and tales of how hard it can be when it's really hard, and I think we easily all talk ourselves into the proposition that it's never been as hard as this. Well it's been hard in the past. It's been really hard. So you keep doing it and, the more you do it, the more you gain strength and confidence that you can do it.

But sometimes we have to make the best of things, and the way we conduct ourselves when the chips are down.

One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.

Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

I've been through a lot of struggles, even though I'm young.

You will never truly know yourself or the strength of your relationships until both have been tested by adversity.