Quotes About Adversity

When you give certain unnecessary people the reason and permission to oppose you, give them the power and strength to oppose you

When you anticipate adversity, you can then plan for adversity. You may never gain control of it, but you can keep it from controlling you.

Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies.

You need eagles wings to get over things that make no sense in this world.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.

Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.

There's no education in the second kick of a mule

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

My mother's great line was, Grasp the nettle with two hands, girl, because if you don't somebody else will.

I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.

In school, you are given the lesson first. On the street, you're given the mistake first and then it's up to you to find the lesson, if you ever find it.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

I have health challenges, I have life challenges, just like everyone else.

Someone might come close to dying, and they'll enjoy life much more than everyone else. I came close to the death of my sports career, and I enjoy everything coming my way.

Everyone else who has fought the Klitschko brothers has been scared.

Just as our adversaries evolve, so, too, must the FBI.

I think problems... kind of just excite me.

When people tell me I can't do something, that's what excites me. It makes me perform better.

I mean, every player is hurt every year, so that's not really an excuse for everything.

When things don't go well, you try to find any kind of excuse.

My parents never let the color of our skin be an excuse for why we did not succeed.

My strength comes from my mom. Just seeing what she had to go through to raise us, she wouldn't make excuses; she wouldn't put her head down. So I guess I looked at adversity right in the eye and took it on.

I don't make excuses if I play bad. I just try to find a way to deal with it. I learned that from my family, to deal with your problems and still be good at what you do.