Quotes About Adversity

Live in such a way that if the devil happened to come to your way, he would change his direction.

No matter how strong you are, you always find someone stronger.

Nothing is as bad that it isn't good for something.

Nowadays, many of those who are incapable of learning, being forced to enter the field of learning.

Prepare yourself for when the water comes up to your knees.

Talking about lions is not the same as facing them in the forest.

The failure is often someone who has tried the more difficult things in life and has the average results.

The least is the worst enemy of the most.

The size of a man is measured by what it takes to upset him.

The time will come soon when you learn to fly after jumping and falling from the sky again and again.

There is absolutely nothing worse than real failure if you give up too soon.

Those who are successful have failed more times than you.

Those who collect pebbles rarely climb mountains.

When all men say you are a dog, it is time to bark.

You don't have to be the brightest bulb in the house; when the darkness comes, you will be 100 watt.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.

Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

What is to give light must endure the burning.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Americans had grown soft with all of their rights and personal freedom. They had no idea how harsh the rest of the world was.

People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.