Quotes About Adversity

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the trough that defines you.

Remember, the worst hour of your life only lasts for sixty minutes. (292)

I felt so good when I fought Larry [Holmes]. When I fought Larry the first time, I mean, first time in my life, I mean, I could remember I wanted to fight.

No day in all my life had ever been as cruel as this one.

The turning point in the life of those who succeed usually comes at the moment of some crisis.

Life isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you handle what happens.

Life without limbs? Or life without limits?

I was one of those kids that was always picked on but, one thing I gotta say it that no matter how bad your life gets, there's always a bright light out there and you gotta find it.

Success comes and goes. Your flops stay with you for life.

When you make mistakes, whether they are from this life or another, learn from them- then they become opportunities

The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.

All life battles teach us something, even those we lose

Blaming the government for all the bad things that happen.

Oh lift me as a wave, a leaf, a cloud! I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!

People have the natural capacity to affirm and embrace life in the most difficult of circumstances.

Sometimes it's things that take the joy out of life, like a blowout when you're hitting sixty or a button coming off of a shirt when you're in a hurry, but usually it's people.

Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed

Character is both developed and revealed by tests, and all of life is a test.

Such is the fate of simple Bard, On life's rough ocean luckless starr'd

Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.