Quotes About Adversity

Even when I was down in the fourth division with Bury at 19, fighting off relegation, training in a local park with dogs running around everywhere, literally stepping over broken bottles to take a goal kick - I was learning.

Benson is a champion. I'd be lying to you if I said I wasn't scared to death inside this cage, stepping into the cage with that monster.

Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.

I think back into when I was in college coming out, what I had to go through, the steps I had to make. And I still play with that chip on my shoulder to this day and I always will, so that's something that'll always stay with me.

God puts you through things - steps in life - and you get over them.

It's not easy to go up the steps after a defeat. It's very difficult for me, for everybody, but we have to accept it.

In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.

Extraordinary measures were required and I realize that not all of these steps were popular.

My heart goes out to the Lindsay Lohans and Britneys who have really had childhood taken from them and probably missed important developmental steps. They have become sort of 'public domain' and something to be made money on. There's no sense of self there, I'm sure of it.

I feel rejecting rejection is one of the most crucial steps in getting past failure.

When you are under pressure, you make the bold steps faster; you don't make the bold steps slower.

I grew up a loser, and I always felt like one, but I turned out pretty okay. I may be living proof that you can spend your whole life feeling like you're falling down a set of steps and still maybe land on your feet at the bottom.

Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you from enjoying it," he wrote in April 1946. "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators, nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.

I mention all this to all of you for a reason. I want to make sure all of you—especially the more wimpy, compliant, and fuddle-brained of your lot—get the message here: DON'T LET THE BASTARDS WEAR YOU DOWN

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.

No garden is without its weeds

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy.

The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and to know myself a Man. - Hymn to Adversity

An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,In blast-beruffled plume.