Quotes About Adversity

In my most painful moments on the bike, I am at my most curious and I wonder each and every time how I will respond.

After I got over the terrible pain of having something of mine taken from me, I began to think how bad everybody else must be feeling. It wasn't a nice time.

You're not going to be a 1.000 hitter all the time. You're going to be more wrong than right. You just have to correct your errors as quickly, as economically, as possible.

The first year was hard for me to deal with. The second year was a little bit easier, but still difficult. It took me five years to get it out of me. It was a difficult moment, a difficult time.

I wish I could have won a lot more tournaments, but I got injured every time I played well.

It's time you realized that you have something in you more powerful and miraculous than the things that affect you and make you dance like a puppet.

Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.

Tragedy plus time equals humor.

We learn to treasure words that people call us; we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss them aside, so in time they become our dignity.

Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin.

Dreams have a hard time surviving when confronted with reality.

How we handle our tough times stays with us for a long time.

Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time, but they get tired of it in the end!

This is what makes this team so dangerous: at any time in the game, even after they've gotten hit in the mouth all day, they're still that explosive.

Whether it's the pot that hits the rock or the rock that hits the pot , it's the pot that will break every time

Trump's tax returns - his tax returns showed he went through a very difficult time, but he used the tax code just the way it's supposed to be used. And he did it brilliantly.

Every time a man rises from defeat, he becomes mentally and emotionally stronger. Thus, in time, one may actually find his self - his true, inner self - through temporary defeat.

The general unemployment rate is going to continue for a long time and for all of us. I have never heard so many heart-wrenching stories of all kinds of people all across the economic spectrum.

My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.

I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.

Know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can be your greatest triumph

Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.