Paul McCartney Quotes

The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.

Adversity is just change that we haven't adapted ourselves to yet.

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended.

The key to success is to keep your head above the water.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Surviving, that's my plan.

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.

Patience is the remedy for every misfortune.

I am up and about when I am ill, and in the most appalling weather. I am on horseback when other men would be flat out on their beds, complaining. We are made for action, and activity is the sovereign remedy for all physical ills.

If things don't go fantastically, you just have to deal with it.

If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

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

Every calamity is to be overcome by endurance.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these

You've just got to take things the way they are and accept them and strive.

Everybody has adversity in their lives and we all have to find ways of overcoming them. You've got to soldier on, make the best of it, look for the positive in everything.

Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer.

You have to stay strong when it gets tough.

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

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

Carry on, carry on, what don't kill us makes us strong.

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls, only one at which one stands.