Quotes About Adversity

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

Because after my first year I had a lot of success, took everybody by storm, came back the next year thought it was easy and didn't have near the season I had the previous year. It was kind of a wake-up call. And so, life goes on.

Su plan de trading es como un ancla que le será de utilidad cuando los mares estén embravecidos.

My mom had me when she was 16, and I was an only child, which is probably why I received a lot of love and didn't miss that my father wasn't around.

Keep your right up or there'll be nothing left of you." - 100 Bullets I love this quote because it has double meaning.

It was a state called fear which afflicted Second Officer James Devlin, or perhaps - considering he was still aboard Highlander on that wild evening - a state called, simply, courage. Because you can't produce the second without experiencing the first. There are no brave men who haven't first tasted the sourness of their own inward terror, yet continued despite it.

Things inexorably get worse.

when a football player steps on a field, he should do it all. I realize a great running back doesn't like to play defense, but life isn't based on what you like. If everyone did what he liked to do, we'd be in real trouble.

El dolor era una carga demasiado pesada para arrastrarla en un viaje a través de las estrellas.

Today's crisis, is tomorrow's wisdom.

Regard your limitations as secret strengths. Or as constraints that you can make use of.

We do not know what is on the other side of the storm.

The war was about everything, it was everything, and the question of where it came from was meaningless. There was only the question of how to live through it.

The war keeps taking pieces of me anyway. Makes the rest of me harder to hit.

Everybody lived like a character in a one-act play that nobody understood; getting by from one moment to the next was like trying to hold on to your hat in a gusty wind.

Brian Garfield

The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

Life is filled with tests, one after another, and if you don't recognize them, you are certain to fail the most important ones.

Let pressure pass over and through you. That way you can't be harmed by it.

And sand, it seemed, got into everything, stinging eyes, abrading skin, and getting into nearly every crack and crevice.

Then we had focus problems on the camera, and the assistant cameraman was run over by a car," Lucas recalled with a sigh. "Then we had a five alarm fire. That was a typical night.

I tried to make money as a kid. I had a lemonade stand for about six weeks. I made no money. I had to burn it down and collect insurance.

the Americans wanted to emerge victorious from this conflict, they would not try to overpower their enemy; they would simply refuse to back down or go away. They didn't need to be conquering heroes—they just needed to survive.

break with the Crown, even though he seemed to consider himself middle of the road on the issue. His stances and politicking gradually got the better of him and again landed him in hot water with the local authorities more