Rick Bragg Quotes

Everybody has their struggles.

It is so easy to be pleasant and charming and positive when life is going swimmingly well. You are winning. You are healthy. You are happy. But what happens when life throws darts at you?

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

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.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

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.

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

The struggle I went through has value.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

The truth is, everybody falls into an incinerator of some measure or other. Not literally one. The question is what are you going to do with those bad times? Are you just going to let them gnaw at you?

I'm used to adversity and working really well in difficult situations. It was hard for me to accept the success.

There's always going to be adversity.

Sometimes, it's just your turn to go through hard times.

I don't think one ever stops struggling.

When you win everything is great but when you're losing nobody wants to know you - except for the people that really love you.

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

When it gets harder to love, love harder.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

Adversity is a good school.

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

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

Sad times May follow your tracks, Bad times May bar you from Saks, Add times When Satan in slacks Breaks down your self control.

A man I am cross'd with adversity.