Quotes About Adversity

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.

Bitmezdi bu. Aynalarda ço?al?r gibi ço?al?yorum; yorgunlu?a, öfkeye, üst üste y???lan tersliklere vermeli bunu.

Bir olanaks?zl??a inanmak istemeyebilir ki?i, ama onu kabul etmek gerekince de içi parçalanmadan ya?am?n? sürdürebilir.

Bir anlamda herkes dü?man. Dü?man?m. Dü?man?m?z. Ya da günü gelince dü?man olabilir.

Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It's the lack of limits they can't handle. That's when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

It is, I concluded, a side effect of this kind of food, one that's handed down from one generation to another, often in conditions of adversity, that you end up thinking of the dead, that the very stuff that sustains you tastes somehow of mortality. (198)

That week we tried everything to bury our heads in the sand. But the problem remains the same world over; the sand is never quite deep enough.

The great thing about this game is that the bad days are wonderful.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

Some people save the world and some make up the numbers. But then Thorns stumbled along.

See, it's all about Fate. Fate that I'm going to be a dead kid. Fate that you got tangled up with me. We're both stuck and all we can do is make the best of it.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We begin life on a linear path where success is based on clear targets. Life gets complicated when the targets aren't clear, and you have to set your own. By rubbing up against the world, you get to know yourself. Either do that, or you're going to spend your life serving the interests and expectations of others.

Don't worry about the challenges. Embrace them. Go through them even if they hurt. Tell yourself, there is something to be learned from this experience. You may not fully understand it now, but you will later. It's all part of life, and life is a process of learning. Every challenging experience develops your core of inner strength, which gets you through those storms. Nothing worth doing in life is going to be easy.

I just want to make it clear first of all that I do not have the AIDS disease. I plan on being here for a long time. Life is going to go on for me and I'm going to be a happy man. But sometimes you're a little naive and think 'it's not going to happen to me. It only happens to other people.' But here I am saying that it can happen to anybody. Even me, Magic Johnson.

But taking wrong trains, encountering unexpected delays, and suffering occasional mechanical breakdowns are inevitable to any journey really worth taking. One learns to get oneself turned around and headed the right way.