Quotes About Adversity

To run over better waters the little vessel of my genius now hoists her sails, as she leaves behind her a sea so cruel.

Well, you know, I mean, we are usually good at getting multiple hits, and we couldn't string together multiple hits. But you know, we know that it's right around the corner, and our back's against the wall, so we've got to get them tomorrow. We've got to get those hits, and hopefully they don't.

It's all good, man. It's part of the game. I like battle. That's what makes the game fun. You hope that it doesn't turn into physical battle, but at some point in time ...

You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

At the very end, somebody took a dump right where I stood in the dugout every day. That was the low point. The grounds crew guy cleaned it up. He said, "Oh, I think it's dog crap." I said, "No it ain't. That's human crap."

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.

Men can bear all things except good days.

The next morning, walking about the charred embers of so many of his hopes and dreams, the sixty-seven-year-old Edison said, "There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew."4

I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

A story is the record of how somebody deals with danger.

If your life has no problems, you're not really living it.

When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.

I've had hard coaches all my life.

the human soul, by once suffering as much as it is capable of, purchases a strange and terrible immunity to all the rest of life's sorrows.

It's just life. You can't beat life.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

One thing is certain in life. Just when things are going well, soon afterward they are certain to go wrong. It's just the way things are meant to be.

Well, this is good for me, this is experience, I am here for a reason, these moments run into pages, the seamy side of life.

If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone

All life is problem solving

An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey.

When your life falls apart, you either grow, or you grow a tumor.

Our trials are supposed to turn us toward God, but we whine and complain and wish someone would turn down the fire so we could have our old life back the way it was.