Quotes About Adversity

My mom was tough.

I tell their stories here to do all of them some small honor. Their lives and, sometimes, their deaths speak to what we are capable of as average people in the face of evil and horror.

We can't always be unlucky in my experience. And so, my dear friend: courage, patience and resignation.

Widowed at the age of twenty-seven, with no formal business training and no firsthand experience, Barbe-Nicole transformed a well-funded but struggling and small-time family wine brokerage into arguably the most important champagne house of the nineteenth century in just over a decade. It

Isn't it funny how often good things seem to come out of bad?

From now on, I'll have to be my own rock. Rebuild my own life. Start afresh. I've done it before, and I'll do it again.

It was amazing how quickly the body could heal. But the spirit was not so resilient.

Failure is only temporary.

For many years Ugandan society was not positive about women in sport because they thought sport is masculine and while top sportswomen might be admired as great athletes, they were not admired as great family people because they were off the expected road,

You can ask yourself, 'Why would so many people experience this kind of miserable place and not vacate?' Because it is a place full of people with nowhere else to go." •

That's life in general: Can't let jerks dictate your emotions.

Pipe down, Chumley! I don't know what black hole of personal ambition you climbed out of, but it's now time to skee-daddle on back, you Crisco-based life-form.

A man can be destroyed but not defeated!" Jethro lifted his beer and drained it all at once and then looked at the can. "I have drunk you, beer, and I thank you. We are now one….

The greater part of experience is acquired in sink-or-swim situations. If we were smart, we would never grow wise.

What makes you a football player is getting up after you get knocked down, or going out to catch another pass after you just dropped one. The harder the hit, or the worse the drop, the more important it is to keep going. That's the game. That's what a real football player does. If you can't do that, then you shouldn't play.

That was our parents' game; it was too hard for children.

There's no question that history will record that I took a helluva shellacking.

I don't generally go after people offensively, but if somebody comes after me, I will absolutely meet them every step of the way and then some, no question.

In America people get depressed for no reason. They say, 'I'm sad my boyfriend didn't call me.' I tell them, 'How would you like to spend 12 hours on a line to get bread or a chicken?' That is depressing.

If the challenge wasn't there, there's no reason to say 'yes' to the role.

I had a lot of downs too, it is no secret.

I'm an emotional fighter; that's no secret. But it can be detrimental.

When Chrome launched, it was not a high point for Firefox. There's no secret about that.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.