Quotes About Adversity

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

You can't become a decent horseman until you fall off and get up again, a good number of times. There's life in a nutshell.

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.

But the winners are those who know that when things get really hard and others start to fall away, that is the time to dig deep and give that little bit extra.

And in my hour of darkness, She is standing right in front of me Speaking words of wisdom, "let it be"

Ife can sure be a downer.

I guess this like everything else bad in life, will pass.

This disaster did not force us to abandon our ideal; on the contrary, from the very first months of the conflict, it led us to define precisely the conditions for its realization.

The realization that I'm never going to run again, the feeling through my hair when you run... you're still a kid. You still have so much life to live.

My background wasn't one blessed with all the luxuries in life. Nothing is forever and I realize that.

I realized that bullying never has to do with you. It's the bully who's insecure.

If somebody would've told me that I was going to lose my legs at the age of 19, I would've thought there's absolutely no way I'd be able to handle that. But then it happened, and I realized that there's so much more to live for, that my life isn't about my legs.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life.

In my mid 30's, after a decade or so of giving full time to the music thing and finding myself with about $10 in the bank and no assets other than my musical equipment, I realized I needed to get serious about making a living.

Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.

After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.

I realized my life was not going to be, per se, normal.

When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.

In a way, a certain amount of self-criticism is a good thing, because it keeps you humble. Realizing that no matter what success you've achieved, you can still make enemies makes you humble, too.

I watched my own father, he went bankrupt and had problems with the IRS. He was living beyond his means, and I guess I was doing the same thing and not even realizing it.

Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.

We have to have adversity in order for us to really reap the benefits and really just have an appreciation of how hard it is to win in the NBA.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.