Quotes About Adversity

Examples of such remarkable transformations abound throughout history. Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.

Jordan didn't make his sophomore team because he was deemed too short and average to play at that level. Stan Smith, a world-class tennis player

this concept. From Mozart to Bobby Fischer to Bill Gates to the Beatles, their diverse journeys from nothing

Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company. In his youth, Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything." Beethoven was so awkward on the violin that his teachers believed him hopeless as a composer.

Imagine the pressure Tesla faced: both the world's most powerful financier—one of the last enemies you'd want—and the world's greatest inventor were trying to draw a bead on him and pull the trigger. Most men would've quietly resigned, or begged for scraps, but not Tesla.

No matter the journey, one will always face opposition, whether in the form of competitors, enemies, meddlers, saboteurs, incompetents, and the like. The simplest way to defeat them all is to accomplish what you set out to accomplish.

this we can see the necessity of being willing to fight for your creations. Morgan and Edison weren't satisfied with trying to ruin Tesla through capitalistic competition—they were resorting to outright depravity

became known, was slow and expensive. Delays in receiving equipment plagued Tesla due to the complicated and unusual nature of his designs. In 1903, the tower structure was nearly complete, and the transmitter was operational. As testing began, residents in the area reported seeing "all sorts

An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another. Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again, and that ability resides squarely in our imagination.

This is the beauty of imagination. An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another. Losing what we have can only do us real harm when we feel we can't create it, or something equally valuable or compelling, again, and that ability resides squarely in our imagination.

With everything that's thrown at you, whether it be problems at home, problems at work - whatever - basically, if you remain positive, you can see your way out of that.

When you have fallen by the road side, the media do not offer a helping hand

I don't really necessarily think I'm a funny guy, but I like the opportunity to take on something that I don't feel I'm the best at doing.

We were two wood-shavings of humanity in a rough world.

My own story, anyone's own story, is always told against me, even what I myself am writing here, because I have no heroic history to offer. There is no difficulty not of my own making.

I did not know that a person could hold up a wall made up of imaginary bricks and mortar against the horrors and cruel, dark tricks of time that assail us, and be the author therefore of themselves.

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures.

He was shivering like a Wicklow sheepdog in a snowy yard, though the weather was officially 'clement'. The first layer of clothing was his jacket, the second his shirt, the third his long-johns, the fourth his share of lice, the fifth his share of fear.

And a man who can make himself merry in the face of those coming disasters that assailed him, as disasters do so many, without grace or favour, is a true hero.

Life wants you to go down and suffer far as I can see. You gotta dance around all that. A child must come out to dance and dance around all obstacles and dance in the end the creaky quadrille of age.

I did not intend to cry out, but as you will see these small actions, associated in most people's minds with the ease and happiness of life, are to me still like knives in my heart to think of.

Trouble always comes and no use wishing it didn't. Thing is, to get through it – and out the other side. If there is another side.

Terror is just the cousin of courage

You have to try to shore up the levee when the flood races down. Even with your bare hands.