Quotes About Adversity

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

The individual can do nothing and yet he can do everything.… I am on the side of struggle.

Now he had nothing, or he had his freedom. It depended on how he looked at it, he supposed.

I feel amazed when I look back on those days and the things that I learned to tolerate. How much my ability to tolerate hurts flung at me has taken out of me!

I am a woman in the process; Im just trying to be like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience and learn from it. Life is never dull.

You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

Io perfino nelle pause in cui piango suoi miei fallimenti, le mie delusioni, i miei strazi, concludo che soffrire sia da preferirsi al niente.

Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

You cannot measure a man by his failures. You must know what use he makes of them. What did they mean to him. What did he get out of them.

Learn to use the criticism as fuel and you will never run out of energy.

Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.

A person who cannot handle setbacks will never handle victories either.

Pressure will squeeze whining out of losers and winning out of achievers.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

Do you see a problem in every opportunity or an opportunity in every problem?

Everyone deals with the problems of life, but remember the goal is to solve them to get new ones.

The only people capable of handling success are those who have learned to handle failures w/o taking their eyes off the prize.

Wealthy people attract critics like wealthy ships attract pirates.

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

I would rather face my fears than lose, but most people would rather lose than face their fears.