Quotes About Adversity

Life's only as bad as you make it out to be. It's go nothing to do with the way it is.

In a tough situation, don't avoid acting just because it's easier or comfortable. Don't lapse into a passive state. People who give up, die.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

All the fun is locking horns with impossibilities.

For life to be meaningful, you must have a challenge.

You can never be truly happy in a life unless you have known a sorrow. All terrible things we have gone through in life have created spaces inside us where happiness can live Not to mention love.

The things I can't do are the things I have yet to learn.

If losers can exploit what their adversaries teach them, yes, losers can become winners in the long term.

... sometimes in life, you either laugh or you cry. And I prefer to laugh.

Suzanne Collins, Catching Fire

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

Death is not such a bad thing. What would be a bad thing would be living without challenges. Without knowing defeat, we cannot know what victory is. There is no life without death.

One's enemy is often the best teacher of tolerance.

Do the Difficult and Uncomfortable If You Would Like an Easy and Comfortable Life.

Being unemployed is the true test of who you really are.

I can wade through contrast and give birth to desires without yielding my Well Being.

There are dark forces in the world that would have you believe that you can't succeed and that you're a failure and that you're evil and all this nonsense.

Success and failure are terrible traps.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

In the stormy current of life characters are weights or floats which at one time make us glide along the bottom, and at another maintain us on the surface.

I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.

If you're playing basketball with someone who's better than you, you have to get better or else it's no fun

After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.

The question is not, 'Do you have a problem?' The question is, 'Does the problem have you?'