Quotes About Adversity

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion!

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

Too many people, including the ad industry, believe the future is something that happens and just rolls them over in it's wake.

Philosophy easily triumphs over past and future ills; but present ills triumph over philosophy.

It is possible to reclaim your future, to build a happy life despite an imperfect past. We can order the universe to our will and mind.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

Attitude is the ability to reframe the experience to empower you to future victories

The terrorists do not understand America. The American people do not falter under threat, and we will not allow our future to be determined by car bombers and assassins.

Having lost our present and our future, we had of necessity to bend all our endeavors to the past, which no one could take from us if only we were vigilant enough.

Unhappy am I because this has happened to me.- Not so, but happy am I, though this has happened to me, because I continue free from pain, neither crushed by the present nor fearing the future.

I think the artists of the recession will end up being a very strong force in the future. They learned about survival.

The bridges you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.

Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future.

Running is special. We've all done it: well, poorly, focused, in fear, being pursued, toward a goal. It's just elemental. Running is like fire.

The goal is too small and the goalies are too big.

In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth.

I was born in a slum, but the slum wasn't born in me.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Worthy goals are consistently achieved by enduring forces of adversity and opposition until they subside.

If you want to do something and you have a goal, do it, don't wait, because your channel might change sometime soon - and quite unexpectedly.

(After the losses) I decided I had to break through. I had to set a goal. My goal that I set was to never be pinned.

I have always had a dream to take part in an Olympic Games, and losing my leg didn't change anything.

You are not going to be happy if you lose to a goal in the last minute. It is difficult to take and difficult to get out of your mind.

Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.