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Quotes About Adversity

I grew up quickly at St. Mirren. I realized that if we got relegated, it wasn't just me who was affected, it was the people at the club who could lose their livelihood and whole families could suffer because of it.
~ Aaron Mooy
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.
~ Michael J. Knowles
Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.
~ Ian Frazier
When you see how you react when you suffer that's when you know what you are made of.
~ Leighton Meester
The people who actually do things always suffer the slings and arrows of those who don't.
~ Craig Bruce
Often the best guys are just those that can suffer longer, who don't give up. And it's so easy to give up, when you're on a mountain and it's really hurting. We go through a lot physically.
~ David Millar
All of us suffer difficulties in our lives. And if you say to yourself 'find a way,' you'll make it through.
~ Diana Nyad
Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.
~ Joyce Meyer
I have watched men suffer the anguish of imprisonment, defy appalling human cruelty... break for a moment, then recover inhuman strength to defy their enemies once more.
~ John McCain
The way I suffer after a defeat is not for all, because I suffer. I suffer. But those who know me know that, after this, I start stronger with more hunger, more desire, because I don't like to lose.
~ Antonio Conte
When you suffer a few losses in the playoffs, it forces you back into the gym early on.
~ Scottie Pippen
Just because you are a woman doesn't mean you have to suffer more. We have to get that idea out of our heads.
~ Yalitza Aparicio
All of the top managers I have come across during my career and befriend, they suffer as much with the defeats and when things don't go their way late in life as they did early in life.
~ Roy Hodgson
When you want to win, you are doomed to suffer conflicts.
~ Dani Alves
Critically, you have to remain positive and know you will recover, remembering if you didn't suffer injuries, you'd be a pretty remarkable competitor in any sport.
~ Emile Heskey
When a team is not winning, someone must suffer. It's the same in baseball or anything else.
~ George Mikan
If you suffer a setback but recover from it you become all the stronger as person and a fighter.
~ Rocky Fielding
If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would never have received the Nobel Prize.
~ Rita Levi-Montalcini
I can't properly explain it, but I don't mind admitting I suffered a breakdown.
~ Michael Ball
No one has ever suffered from his people as I have.
~ Ali ibn Abi Talib
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
~ Gordon Parks
I am told by others that I have a lateral-thinking, broad approach to problems, sometimes to my detriment. In school, my grades always suffered because I was continually mucking about with irrelevant side issues, which I often found to be more interesting.
~ Barry Marshall
I was called really horrible, profane names very loudly in front of huge crowds of people, and my schoolwork suffered at one point.
~ Lady Gaga
I was born partially deaf and suffered from labyrinthitis, which affected my balance. I had numerous ear infections and spent my childhood in and out of hospital having operations.
~ Jameela Jamil