Quotes About Adversity

In my first interview in the UFC, I asked them to throw me among the lions. I wanted to fight the best, and that's what the UFC did. Ex-champions, future champions - that's what I wanted.

I didn't have a job because nobody would hire me. My friends were getting hired, and I couldn't even get a job interview. That really rocked my self-esteem because I didn't understand what I did wrong on those job applications.

It isn't brave to do something you're not afraid to do.

Only a fool is humiliated by having been weak enough to have to overcome obstacles.

you don't know what life is. One day you're going to run into a brick wall.

After all, historically it's always been dreadful for women, and the logic given them was "It's going to be dreadful so you may as well learn to enjoy it." I

And as my old friend Irene Kamp used to quote some French guy who said, 'Everything will work out, but badly.

It's only temporary: you either die, or get better. —Something we used to say about life in general, feeling sophisticated and amusing in bars, back in the days when we thought how you behaved was the fault of other people.

I discovered there was something else I had never considered-Plan C- don't turn to mush, don't leave, stay and resist. Tango's entire point.

People ask me all the time how I survived. It wasn't that I was smarter or even stronger than anyone else. I didn't even know what I was doing. It was just that something inside me couldn't go along.

In a game of chess, someone has to take the black pieces.

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Não havia qualquer dúvida que, se ele me tivesse batido diretamente na roda, eu teria sido projetado para debaixo do carro e atropelado. Poderia muito bem ter morrido. Tínhamos passado pelas mais terríveis condições rodoviárias do mundo e acabáramos por ter o nosso primeiro acidente numa estrada canadiana…

Andava tão em baixo que tinha perdido a confiança e já sentia o estômago às reviravoltas perante a perspetiva das estradas no Cazaquistão, Mongólia e Sibéria. Quanto a mim, esses três nomes representavam a parte fundamental da nossa aventura e só poderíamos voltar a respirar de alívio quando a tivéssemos ultrapassado.

I have weathered the storm, I have beaten out my exile.

Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.

While you are going through your trial, you can recall your past victories and count the blessings that you do have with a sure hope of greater ones to allow if you are faithful.

There are times when you simply have to righteous hang on and outlast the devil.

If you're strong enough, there are no precedents.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.

This was one lesson that the war taught me - that every event in time presents opportunities that are recognizable only to those with enough sensibility to see them, that it is possible to thrive in adversity in the needs of the rulers are pandered to.

A single slim trunk Branches that bow in a storm Green, leathery leaves with a soft centre Glittering against blue sky White bark scarred, bleeding Heart wide-open Bandaged, but upright she stands... (225)

We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.