Quotes About Adversity

Good character does not assure worldly success, or triumph in statecraft, but it does provide firm grounding in victory and consolation in failure.

Every victory is only the price of admission to a more difficult problem

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

The sand of the desert is sodden red, -- Red with the wreck of a square that broke; -- The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel dead, And the regiment blind with dust and smoke. The river of death has brimmed his banks, And England's far, and Honour a name, But the voice of a schoolboy rallies the ranks: 'Play up! play up! and play the game!

And the various holds and rolls and throws and breakfallsSomehow or other I always seemed to putIn the wrong place. And as for war, my warsWere global from the start.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

I definitely learned a lesson this time. I know that I can be broken. I am not as tough as I thought. I see it now. At this point, it's the only thing good that came out of all of this. I know myself better now and know what I have to do.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

Don't push me I've got a corner at my back I've nowhere to go except over you.

I just want to be able to stand up straight for a little while before I get cut down.

I have found a way to beat myself I win by losing, something like that I'm told that I'm stupid So ok, I'll be stupid If I can't register the pain Then it's not there I'm not so stupid after all I'll show them

Life will not break your heart. It will crush it.

I want to be that which overcomes itself Listening to them makes me weak and small I watch them go out and fuck each other They tell me that I'm crazy The years scar me I don't want a smooth ride I want the crushing wheel

I will do to you what you taught me. I will pass my fingers over my scars and read them like Braille and they will tell me what to do.

I have felt the muscle pull away from the bone. For a time I was mislead into thinking that I avenge these acts of harm against me. I realized that by living and growing stronger on a diet of scar tissue, I had something better than revenge. I have the best of your bad situation. I am like the roach, the rock, the mountain. I will not die. I will not break. I will not move. Face it. You'll go to your grave knowing you never had what it took to stop me.

Don't let them scar you with their weakness. They will cripple you with their lives. They will make you want to die just to get away from them.

I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters telling me to go back to Russia or whatever.

If you're finding life to be the one thing that's trying to kill you, I want you to stay alive to rise with the sun and fight back.

Life has no instruction manual. Parts and labor can be impossible to find. Many go down the road with parts that are in great need of service. A breakdown is eventual.

Yesterday wants to pull me in, pull me down and starve me.

For me, many albums are much more than a collection of songs. They're testaments to the courage to live above the minimum requirements of merely getting by.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.