Quotes About Adversity

They said" Your Anger could Destroy you.." Even if my Brain designed it to Destroy my enemy.

When the time is right, when these feelings of rage and unfairness once again overcome me, I will not faint. I will fight.

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

The art of victory is learned in defeat.

I have a high art, I hurt with cruelty those who would damage me.

I've come from nowhere, and I'm not shy to go back.

I've trained myself to fight an army, so one guy will not defeat me.

Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.

If losing a fight is the worst thing that's ever happened to you in your life, you're doing pretty good.

All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.

It's not about how you are when things go well, what defines you is how you are when you fail from an obstacle.

Favorable and unfavorable conditions are part of living but smiling through them all is the Art of Living.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

Life is about fighting. You will going to have to fight everyday of your lifetime.

As a lifelong practitioner of martial arts, I'm trained to remain calm in the face of adversity and danger.

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

Punch a black belt in the face, he becomes a brown belt. Punch him again, purple.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

For a true artist, difficulties become opportunities and clouds become solid present.

You learn nothing about someone by the way they win the fight, you learn everything about the way they lose and keep coming back.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

Everyone feels fear. What a samurai or warrior is, is what you do when you feel fear.