Quotes About Adversity

My mom is always telling me it takes a long time to get to the top, but a short time to get to the bottom.

Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!

Why does it have to be so hard? Why can't it be a happily-ever-after ride-into-the-sunset feeling all the time?

Yes, I'm alive," Mat said. "I'm usually pretty good at staying alive. I've only failed one time that I can remember, and it hardly counts.

It's just how it is sometimes. Things hurt, and they hurt for a long time. You have to fight back, or it wins.

What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.

I liken the current situation to that of the Starship Enterprise. The shields are up and the Klingons are shooting at us and every time they land a punch they are sapping our power.

A soldier's time is passed in distress and danger, or in idleness and corruption.

This was how I was dealing with everyone and everything lately, taking the good when it came, and the bad the same way, knowing each would pass in its own time.

Everyone has obstacles, and you're not going to have the right answer or do the right thing every single time.

Every time you get the world by the tail, she thought, you gotta remember there's teeth on the other end.

Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.

Just remember, anger is always your enemy. You must keep your emotions in check. The moment you lose control of them, you lose the fight every time. (Takeshi)

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.

The measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity - adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

If I've already thought through a situation and have a response prepared ahead of time in the event temptation rears its ugly head, it is that much easier to resist.

One of my favorite teams of all time is Fran and Barry. I just thought Fran and Barry last season were just incredible and they just sort of went against all odds and were very successful.

A marriage can go wrong at any time.

Even though I am still injured, I had to fight again today.Luckily this time,I was paired against Myra,who couldn't throw a good punch if someone was controlling her arm for her.

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.

I grew up extremely fast. I was racing at the age of five. I was racing on a semi-national level by the time I was 16. It makes you grow up fast.

You wonderful girl. I've missed you so much." "Well, now that we're both unemployed fugitives, think of how much time we'll have to hang out!