Quotes About Adversity

My walk through the flames permanently scarred my face, but it was the hidden scars that disabled me even more than the obvious ones.

The race is not always to the swift." "Nor the battle to the strong.

A day may come when the courage of men fails, when we forsake our friends and break all bonds of fellowship, but it is not this day.

At first the wave of Persia's fleet rolled firm, but next, as our ships jammed into the narrows and no one could help any other and our own bronze teeth bit into our own strakes, whole oarbanks shattered.

Don't let the bastards get you down.

If you went through life refusing all the bait dangled in front of you, that would be no life at all. No changes would be made and you would have nothing to fight against. Life would be dull as ditchwater.

sea in a terrible storm off Cape St Vincent. All hands were lost. The ship

La adaptabilidad es la clave del más apto, y la extinción de una especie representa la evolución de otra.

The persecution that was destroying me had become a necessity.

When pain brings you down, don't be silly, don't close your eyes and cry, you just might be in the best position to see the sun shine.

Thankfully there is a tiny sliver of my brain that fights back. Without it I would never do anything interesting.

Arethusa liked to call us Poseidon's Children. Orphans of the storm. We'd endured the worst the world could throw at us, the worst consequences of our own stupidity, and came through ... ready to face the dawn. But there are always more storms, Chiku.

None of us is a monster, Chiku. We're all just trying to make the best of our singular natures.

He knew what he was doing. You probably weren't meant to die." "And that makes me lucky? It wasn't remotely unlucky to end up impaled on a wall in the first place? Just a thought.

Losing has changed my whole persona about fighting.

After 'Ace of Space,' I had quite a bumpy ride in terms of my career and personal life.

I became very patient. There are a lot of times when people who do not like you are talking about you and telling bad things on your face. In our personal life, we do get affected by such things.

For me, the only thing I had to look forward to was the ring because my personal life wasn't doing that great, so my fake life was what I was holding onto.

What I went through in personal life had a big impression on my professional choices.

I can fall on my face at times, but I get right back up, dust myself off, laugh, and keep it moving. I never take things or myself too seriously in my personal life.

Failure is a personal thing but it's better to experience it in the beginning itself because you learn to handle it.

Failure is a very personal thing and everybody goes through it very personally.

In the beginning, you know, everyone told me, 'Your eyes are too small, the nose is too big, you can never be on a magazine cover.' But, you know what? The big nose is coming with a big personality.

I know a lot of Cup Series champions, and they each have a very different personality. They all go about handling adversity, their challenges, and even confrontation a little differently.