Quotes About Adversity

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.

You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again.

I take rejection as someone blowing a bugle in my ear to wake me up and get going, rather than retreat.

If you push through the hard days you can get through anything.

I learned at a young age to dribble with both hands, and that allows me to be more creative when I go against bigger and stronger opponents.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misfortune and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house and I have the key.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

Rather then focusing on the obstacle in your path, focus on the bridge over the obstacle.

what matters most is how well you walk through the fire

Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair

I like to use the hard times of the past to motivate me today.

If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.

Nothing goes to waste on the journey of life. Both good and bad experiences shape your mind and heart for what is to come.

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.

Every time you lose you die a little bit. You die inside...a portion of you. Not all of your organs. Maybe just your liver.

When disease took my legs, I eventually realized I didn't need them to lead a full, empowering life; Only True Disability Is in Our Mind.