Quotes About Adversity

All at once, she understood what a champion was: someone who could raise their level of play when they needed to. When the match is on the line, they suddenly "get around three times tougher.

If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it." Pulling

You don't have to have one mindset or the other to be upset. Who wouldn't be? Things like a poor grade or a rebuff from a friend or loved one -- these are not fun events. No one was smacking their lips with relish. Yet those people with the growth mindset were not labeling themselves and throwing up their hands. Even though they felt distressed, they were ready to take the risks, confront the challenges, and keep working at them.

Instead of letting the experience define him, he took control of it.

Bullies judge. Victims take it in. Sometimes it remains inside and can lead to depression and suicide. Sometimes it explodes into violence.

If you make a mistake, you got to make it right. I realized I had a choice. I could sit in my misery or I could do something about it.

One day, young "Dr." Welch, decked out in his fancy suit, got into his new convertible. He proceeded to put the top down and was promptly squirted with dark, grungy oil that ruined both his suit and the paint job on his beloved car. "There I was, thinking I was larger than life, and smack came the reminder that brought me back to reality. It was a great lesson.

When we taught people the growth mindset, it completely changed the way they reacted to their depressed mood. The worse they felt, the more motivated they became and the more the confronted the problems that faced them.

as Billie Jean King tells us, the mark of a champion is the ability to win when things are not quite right—when you're not playing well and your emotions are not the right ones.

Y yo no me voy a rendir; no voy a dejar que te rindas. Si te quedas sentado apoyándote contra la pared todo el día, acabarás por apoyarte en algo o en alguien toda tu vida. Y la genialidad que hay en ti se irá a la basura.

Cuanto peor se sentían, tanto más motivadas se volvían y tanto más afrontaban los problemas que tenían frente a sí.

As time went on and he became less and less responsive to challenges from competitors, he resorted to the key weapons of the fixed mindset—blame, excuses, and the stifling of critics and rivals.

The happiest, most mature adults were those who could embrace the losses in their lives and transform them into sources of deep gratitude—not with platitudes or Pollyanna glosses, say the researchers, but by discovering the genuinely positive aspects of their multifaceted lives.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

One should not allow untoward events to interfere with one's regular habits or social obligations.

impecunious phases.

My face had a disagreement with a fist about occupying the same space. The fist had the upper hand.

in real life, monsters weren't always vanquished, and heroes didn't always win.

it weren't for bad luck, he'd have no luck at all, and all that.

This was life. You made the mistakes, you took the knocks, you carried on, you got stronger. Giving up, rolling over, dying – that wasn't an option.

You have to work with the cards that life deals you.

Some days the universe simply conspires against you.

Headaches you could generally shift with a couple of well-aimed Nurofen and some strong coffee. Heartaches were considerably more tricky to handle.

There is the disease and the person, and though I am living with both, one has robbed me of the other.