Quotes About Adversity

I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Herkeste geçici gerilemeler olur, hiç kimse geçmi?in, bilinçd???n?n ve çat??malar?n nihai bir biçimde birer aksesuar olarak bir kenara b?rak?ld??? bir ilerleme çizgisi izlemez. Hay?r, böyle bir ?ey yoktur, onlarla birlikte ya?ar?z ama ba?ka türlü ya?ar?z.

N? vienas iš m?s? neina pasirinktu keliu, neišklysdamas iš jo. kaip duj? molekul?s, nuolat veikiamos sm?gi?, priverstos be perstog?s keisti trajektorij?, taip ir žmones nuolatos veikia visokiausi atsitiktinumai.

A win doesn't feel as good as a loss feels bad, and the good feeling doesn't last as long as the bad. Not even close.

Losing to Pete has caused me enormous pain, but in the long run it's also made me more resilient. If I'd beaten Pete more often, or if he'd come along in a different generation, I'd have a better record, and I might go down as a better player, but I'd be less.

When you know that you just took the other guy's best punch, and you're still standing, and the other guy knows it, you will rip the heart right out of him. In tennis, he says, same rule. Attack the other man's strength. If the man is a server, take away his serve. If he's a power player, overpower him. If he has a big forehand, takes pride in his forehand, go after his forehand until he hates his forehand.

Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.

Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that

Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink.

It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

Mandela said once in an interview: No matter where you are in life, there is always more journey ahead. And I think of one of Mandela's favorite quotes, from the poem Invictus, which sustained him during those moments when he thought his journey had been cut short: I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Ya encontrarás una solución, me dice J. P. ¿Cómo? ¿Qué solución? No lo sé. Pero la encontrarás. Ésta es una crisis momentánea, Andre. Una de tantas. Y, tan seguro como que estamos aquí sentados, vendrán otras. Grandes, pequeñas y de todas las gamas intermedias. Enfréntate a esta crisis como una práctica para las crisis futuras.

Never let your success go to your head, Never let your failures get in your heart

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

Our true strength appears at our weakest moments

We all learn our strengths and weaknesses throughout life; don't allow your weaknesses to be your greatest strength by default.

The most important thing in life is to see to it that you are never beaten.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us; we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry us through the trials which may lie ahead.

Everyone wants a world without sadness, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

A positive vision is what keeps us going despite the misfortunes and setbacks that fill our lives. The sole disadvantage is that it stops us to seeing evil.

sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can never hurt me.