Quotes About Adversity

Tupper, I think in The Victor. Alf was a working class, whippet-thin runner known as the Tough of the Track who won all his races despite having been up all night making briquettes to save a friend's business, missing his bus to the stadium, being knocked over mid-race by a poncy upper-class twit and losing one of his raggedy running shoes.

Before you tell me how to do it better, before you lay out your big plans for changing, fixing, and improving me, before you teach me how to pick myself up and dust myself off so that I can be shiny and successful—know this: I've heard it before. I've been graded, rated, and ranked. Coached, screened, and scored. I've been picked first, picked last, and not picked at all. And that was just kindergarten.

Working to keep negative information out during a difficult conversation is like trying to swim without getting wet.

Diversification is the compliment that humility pays to uncertainty.

We need to lose less often in the fight against the bad guys. Or, at least, lose more gracefully and recover quickly.

You were born of a woman, and so you come from a race of dragon-slayers. This does not mean you will succeed. It just means the thing is possible.

as I have been thinking about this, I decided it might be better to be a broken man than a man who never risked breaking anything.

May the world enjoy a year that is free of hurricanes, earthquakes, fires, drought, and political speeches, which produce the most wind of all.

But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see. Now my troubles are going To have troubles with me!

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

He who would love much has also much to suffer.

The school of suffering tempers the spirit, the arena of combat strengthens the soul. (El Filibusterismo)

You must shatter the vase to spread its perfume, and smite the rock to get the spark!" (El Filibusterismo)

Failure isn't the end of the world, nor is it a sign that you won't be capable of going on to do other things.

Situations reveal who we are, they don't create who we are.

We can be negative and cynical or we can be charged and hot wired to find a way through it, over it, around it under it.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at time of challenge and controversy.

The only people who do not experience frustrations are up in heaven or in the grave. The rest of us in the land of the living cannot escape frustrations any more than we can escape illness, taxes, or death. To be alive means to be frustrated. Therefore, to seek a life without frustration is like asking to die.

We rarely improve our habits and traits while floating on the placid pool of ease and comfort.

You retain your health only so long as you are willing to forgive your stresses, shrug off adversity and adapt to new situations. Resistance to change always impedes the workings of your immunity. An old Sanskrit proverb tells us kshama chajanani: the essence of motherly love is forgiveness. Damage to the ahamkara-mother predisposes us to disease by weakening our innate forgiveness.

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you

When you're in a Slump, you're not in for much fun. Un-slumping yourself is not easily done.

You won't lag behind, because you'll have the speed. You'll pass the whole gang and you'll soon take the lead. Wherever you fly, you'll be best of the best. Wherever you go, you will top all the rest. Except when you don't. Because, sometimes, you won't.