Quotes About Adversity

When one door is closed, don't you know that many more are open

Most people think rejection is the end. It's actually a beginning.

My strength did not come from lifting weights. My strenght came from lifting myself up when I was knocked down.

Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.

It is the story of obscure beginnings, the story of a boy who, barely eleven, after his father's early death, had to take on the burden of being the "man of the family"; a story of great hardships, of vision and determination, of sorrow and success.

Mind you, I've been here during the bad times too - one year we came second.

Viktor Frankl the Concentration camp survivalist said no matter how much mental or physical abuse had been given nobody could cause him to think about anything he didn't want to think about" ? Bob Proctor

It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live and it's phenomenally powerful.

You never die from a snake bite, you can't be unbitten it's in the way, what continues to pour through you long after the bite has taken place.

J. K. Rowling was on welfare when she wrote the first Harry Potter book and has stated that she considered herself "the biggest failure I knew," but this didn't stop her.

Challenge is important: It keeps you from becoming complacent and doing what is easiest—rather than what is best. The masses go down the wide road of 'easy,' while the few struggle along the path to true wealth. This is partly why, when challenges come, you'll often feel very alone. Everyone else gives up and runs back to that wide, easy road

Challenges can either knock us backward, or be used as a step toward our goals. We choose the direction!

Our purpose clarifies our goals; Challenges refocus new opportunities.

Drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope - and when we fight against drugs we are fighting for the future.

Bill Cosby said it pretty eloquently: "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.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa.

Bobbie Ann Mason

That's what chess is all about. One day you give your opponent a lesson, the next day he gives you one.

But we got through it." He shook his head. "You never get over it. You just get through it. Know what I mean?

the universe has no respect for our personal comfort zones.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that.