Quotes About Adversity

So a failed movie is not going to ruin my career.

I got real bored in '96. Wasn't nobody to fight. Nothing to look forward to. That's when I started playing basketball again. Had I not started playing basketball, my boxing career would have failed. But I went from a sport where nobody could touch me to another where I couldn't touch nobody.

I've failed a lot in my career.

You never know what they're going through. Maybe they failed a test. Maybe they're going through a state of depression. Kids go through so much.

When you are having a rough day... you think you are failing. But failure is a part of life. It's about building character and growing.

I always say if you're not failing, you're not trying.

SpaceX does seem to have had a run of bad luck, with its first three launches all failing.

The success or failing in one competition doesn't define you, and that is one thing that any sports would teach you.

Living in Chicago, you have got to not be afraid about failing at something.

When you have your own business, you don't mind failing if it makes you better in the long run.

I used to think that my business mirrored my climbing - if I wasn't failing at something, I just wasn't trying anything hard enough.

Everybody fails.

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Man is not made for defeat.

That's why this game is so great. It's a game of failure.

When you don't win, you get called a failure.

You're going to fail. It's how you respond to that failure that kind of defines you as a person, as an athlete.

There is much to be said for failure. It is much more interesting than success.

The biggest lesson I had in my life was failure.

If you're 40 years old and you've never had a failure, you've been deprived.

You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.

We're all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it's a really difficult world. And for me, God has always - in my relationship with Christ - He's given me hope and peace.

The content of your character will come from how you respond to your failures.

I've had more failures than I've had success, but I'm not afraid to fail.