Quotes About Adversity

While we have minimal control over the events that befall us, we have the final say over how we regard and react to them.

I learned a lot from my losses. They made me stronger and more determined.

There's always good news wrapped up in bad news.

Every pain is a lesson.

I'm here, Satan," he said. "I can't see you, and maybe you can move faster than I can, but I'm still here, and by the grace of God and the power of the Holy Spirit I intend to be a thorn in your side until one of us has had enough!

Talent is liquified trouble.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Orang-orang kuat ditempa oleh pelbagai tantangan, seperti layang-layang yang dilambungkan ke langit oleh terpaan angin.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.

You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Du kannst mich nicht vertreiben, nicht verbrennen und nicht ertränken. Dein Hass reicht nicht aus, mich zu besiegen, er macht mich nur stärker.

One very important ingredient of success is a good, wide-awake, persistent, tireless enemy.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

That's life,and I can't deny it/Many times I thought of cuttin' out but my heart won't buy it.

We drove through unbelievable blizzards in the north-east, argued with in-house merch sellers in New York and played our first ever show in Boston. (187)

They threw me a whirlwind And I spat back the sea

I felt a little like Custer must have felt when he chanced upon Sitting Bull's Sioux.

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

The children almost broken by the world become the adults most likely to change it.

Any fool can have bad luck the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.