Quotes About Adversity

You be surprised what a person got in them to do when the time come.

They's a time for sitting still and praying the wind blow over you, and they's a time to rise up and face the storm.

In freedom, most agree, every step forward has always been accompanied by a step back.

It's good to do uncomfortable things. It's weight training for life.

I felt alternately rubbery and empty, like sometimes I was landing on the Swiss cheese, sometimes on the holes.

OVERALL, THE MORE STRESSFUL MY LIFE WAS BECOMING, THE MORE DETERMINED I was to get it together, stop acting like a passenger, and climb back behind the wheel where I belonged

Make an obstacle an opportunity, make a negative a positive.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

My house is burned, but I can see the sky.

Life, to me, is a series of false limits and my challenge as an athlete is to explore those limits on a bike.

If there was a god, I'd still have both nuts.

It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it, at this time of the year; just, the worst time of the year, to take a journey, and specially a long journey, in. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off in solstitio brumali, the very dead of Winter.

Last we consider the time of their coming, the season of the year. It was no summer progress. A cold coming they had of it at this time of the year, just the worst time of the year to take a journey, and specially a long journey. The ways deep, the weather sharp, the days short, the sun farthest off, in solsitio brumali, 'the very dead of winter

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend: such nails are then thrown into the dust or into the furnace.

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Negroes Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day They change their minds! Wind In the cotton fields, Gentle breeze: Beware the hour It uproots trees!

I've been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

Life dosent frighten me at all.

Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

Temper us in fire, and we grow stronger. When we suffer, we survive.

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive

What don't kill me... Had better start running!

Being told that love is forbidden does not kill love. It strengthens it.