Quotes About Adversity

There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring

The greater our level of understanding, the harder the tests become.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

My toughest fight was with my first wife.

We can't be brave without fear.

I never thought of losing, but now that it's happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

You don't lose when you get knocked down. You lose when you stay down.

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

I've wrestled with alligators, I've tussled with a whale. I done handcuffed lightning And throw thunder in jail. You know I'm bad. just last week, I murdered a rock, Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick. I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

When the divine decree descends, the human being is cornered.

To Javed- My way of life is poverty, not the pursuit of wealth; Barter not thy Selfhood; win a name in adversity.

Khuda tujhe kisi toofaan se aashna karde, Ke tere behr ki maujon men iztiraab naheen May God grant you a storm! The voyage of your life is on too placid an ocean…

Ba kuja sar niham keh chun zanjir Har dare halqa-e dare digar-ast (Hide—but where? Each door I close opens another.) —Anonymous (found in a ghazal by Mir Taqi Mir)

Just trying to make it out alive," Han said. Which was honestly his ultimate goal for any day if you looked close enough.

The luxury of youth banished in the face of turmoil.

When there is great pain, there are only three rules: not to push the pain away, not to try to understand it, and not to indulge in it...Make yourself as open as a young tree caught in a storm. Let the storm bend you at its will, do not resist it, do not argue with it either- how could one argue with the wind and the rain?- and never ever feel sorry for yourself.

But planted in our flesh these valleys stand, everywhere we begin to know the illness, are forced up, and our times confirm us all.