Quotes About Adversity

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life.

Each misfortune you encounter will carry in it the seed of tomorrow's good luck.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.

Not many people have had as much bad luck as I have, but not many people have had as much good luck, either.

Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified.

It is in the nature of things that some people should be unlucky enough to get their heads chopped off.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

Aren't I lucky, to have survived so much bad luck.

Look, I haven't had hardly any bad luck. I never look at it that way.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

I didn't play my best but I won. He was a lucky loser but I think he went out of luck today.

Good luck has its storms.

As ill-luck would have it.

Si lo que desea hacer es correcto, y si cree en eso, ¡adelante, hágalo! Lleve a cabo su sueño, y no haga caso de lo que digan los "demás" si sufre una derrota temporal, ya que tal vez los "demás" no saben que cada fracaso lleva consigo la semilla de un éxito equivalente.

There is no better test of character than a man's treatment of difficulties. The coward shuns them; the lazy man tries to go around them; the idler dawdles in front of them, waiting like Micawber for something to turn up or some miracle to remove them; the baby-man waits for some friend to lift him over them ; but the manly man surmounts them.

I stopped three feet from gold, but I will never stop because men say 'no' when I ask them to buy insurance." Darby

It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal. If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a quitter.