Quotes About Adversity

When a child is born, it's born with a heart of gold, but the way of this world can turn that heart cold. I'm still a good person, and I thank God for that - He's working with me on it.

Great champions learn from past experiences, whether those be good or bad. A lot of times a guy needs to be knocked down before he gets up and fights.

I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

When something bad happens to me, I think I'm able to deal with it in a pretty good way. That makes me lucky. Some people fall apart at the first little thing that happens.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.

A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.

It is not good news, but we have to face reality.

People who bullied me have matured now. Some are good friends.

FACTS Fact #1 Mean people suck. Fact #2 Bad things happen to good people. Fact #3 Good doesn't always prevail over evil.

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

When my parents were getting divorced, I just said to myself, 'Go to sleep, and tomorrow you can go skiing.' I cried myself to sleep, and in the morning I was up on the mountain, and I was good.

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

You never can tell when a bad thing might make a good thing happen. I realized that good and bad were always there and always mixed up together in a tangle.

As you get older, there are going to be a few more challenges, but thankfully I'm still feeling good.

A bad day can tell you more about yourself than a good day.

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.

Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself.

There are two ways to look at most problems... 'Oh Crap!' or, 'Good Information!,' and our choice will give us good information on how to deal with problems in the future.

To be let go from a soap opera is the most embarrassing confidence basher in the world. It's like, 'Oh, if I'm not good enough for that, I'm not good enough for anything.

It doesn't feel good when you have to struggle to get your pants on.

Adversity is a good school.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.