Quotes About Adversity

There are worse things than suffering and death... it is worse to lose one's self-respect.

Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.

I've lost a lot of teeth and square yards of hide. But I've never lost my self-respect, and I've kept what I find in few men of my age - my enthusiasm.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity.

Stand-up is like a row boat: it's fun and romantic when you're choosing to do it. But if you have no other choice than to be in a row boat it's not as enjoyable; that's survival.

If life can remove someone you never wanted to lose, it can replace them with someone you never dreamed of wanting.

Men like him, the kind of guys who left the womb fighting? They didn't get fairy-tale endings. They burned bright until they burned out—and he was burning out.

You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life's lessons are learned through pain

I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

It's amazing and sad what we have to do to survive sometimes.

She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that's important—you know

Sad things happen. They do. But we don't need to live sad forever.

If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

you must quit expecting the world to run smoothly. Life is a bumpy ride, and we're just all along for the journey. Find your center and core deep inside of you, and hold on tight. As long as you stand in your own power, the world can run like a kaleidoscope and you'll always have your footing.

Las mareas calmas no crean marineros hábiles.

Trouble is to man what rust is to iron

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.

He who can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

Let us not be defeated by our fears before we are defeated by the enemy.

In baseball, you don't know nothing.

Losing is a learning experience. It teaches you humility. It teaches you to work harder. It's also a powerful motivator.

Self-reliance conquers any difficulty