Quotes About Adversity

Bear them we can, and if we can we must.

It isn't what happens to you that matters, it's how you take it.

Barbie smiled. 'But that's business,' she declared. 'Sometimes people are nice and sometimes nasty. In business you have to take the rough with the smooth

Life has dealt her some hard blows; she has accepted them and made the best of things. She does not expect Fate to be kind.

Unfortunately Bel was unable to enjoy these days whole-heartedly. There was a cloud upon her spirits. She had agreed with Louise that the best thing to do was to forget all her troubles, but it is one thing to know what is the best thing to do and quite another thing to be able to do it.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.

Defeat is most devastating at the moment of victory" Saint Dane

I was safe. Uncomfortable as hell, but safe.-Bobby, RR

There are no problems, only challenges. - Uncle Press

My life has been defined by a series of failures.

Providence ever turns bad to the good, if you have eyes to see it.

Good will always prevail over evil. I see that in me versus Klitschko.

I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values and the things that I love, and my passion, and that's really what helped me move forward. Also, for me just being grateful for what I had in my life versus on focusing on what I was losing, that really helped as well.

It's kind of fun when it's you versus them.

Last year, at the beginning of the year, we couldn't get arrested, so I'll take this. Feast versus famine.

I did think there were one or two referees who had a personal thing against me. It wasn't them versus Celtic - it was them against me! I just think they wanted to take me on.

A great team versus another great team, your performance is going to go down. But my job is to improve my consistency where, when I dominate against the lesser teams, go and do well and do the same amount of work when I'm going against the Alabamas and the LSUs, and it will come.

I got into my first fight, Democrat versus Republican, in second grade. I won.

I was born into long odds. I know what the David versus Goliath story is. My life has been that.

Once you're inside that Octagon, it's one-on-one. Your skill versus his skill. Your heart versus his heart.

I think sometimes you learn more about someone when they're upset about a situation and how they might communicate versus when things are going their way.

From the vertigo, I found out how far I can push myself physically and also mentally.

The vertigo is a difficult thing: it just comes and goes whenever it pleases. I wasn't expecting it. I've had it before, and there have been years between stretches, and unfortunately it happened at the U.S. Open, and that knocked me off my feet.