Quotes About Adversity

Even the good things don't go to my head and I don't let the bad things affect me.

You know that once you're successful, there's going to be good things and bad things that people say and, honestly, to me it doesn't really matter.

I've been through good things and bad things that helped me grow up.

For sure, when you don't have a fight, you don't have the pressure. Without the pressure, your mind is more open to learning. I learned a lot of good things.

I didn't like school at all. I was bullied and didn't have a good time. Boxing was my escapism, and the ring was where I felt best.

There are always good times and bad times.

You show your character through the good times and the bad times and for me it's just about being professional.

Stick out the bad times because there's always good times coming up. When you come out on the other side, it's amazing.

I've been hit in the head a lot, but I don't think I have any problems, but I can't, for the life of me, remember a lot of my road stories and good times. When times are bad enough, that's all you can ever think about.

You can have good times with anyone, but it's really different and much more interesting when you look at how you get through the bad times with someone.

Football is like that - sometimes you have good times, sometimes you have bad times.

If you like being patted on the back for the good times you have to be prepared to take the bad times.

I accept that in life and football you have good times and bad, and it's how you deal with it.

You can have nothing and be sad, or you can have nothing and be, like, positive and look at it in a good way and try to make your circumstance better.

failure is also the stern parent of truth. (p525)

aveva già raggiunto quel limite di età, al di là del quale l'uomo in divenire deve affermarsi non solo contro i propri umori, ma anche contro una gigantesca chimera del mondo, che gli fa sentire ad ogni minuto, soffocandolo, la nullità del suo lo appena desto.

What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem might cruel and unfair, but that's how life is a part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad

But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad…. You understand?

Now nothing was left hanging to the pole but the frazzled ends of the snapped blades.

Qu'un type de trente-cinq ans soit chez lui un mercredi à quinze heures vingt est la preuve tangible qu'il est dans une merde de première qualité.

But if someone had slowed him down, just slightly interrupted his course, maybe he could have gotten through that one nightmarish moment; maybe he would never get that close to it again.

You have to suffer in order to be beautiful.

How do you feel, said a friend to me, when you are hooted and jeered on the street on account of your color? I feel as if an ass had kicked, but had hit nobody, was my answer.

The truth was, that he had not whipped me at all. I considered him as getting entirely the worst end of the bargain; for he had drawn no blood from me, but I had from him. The whole six months afterwards, that I spent with Mr. Covey, he never laid the weight of his finger upon me in anger. He would occasionally say, he didn't want to get hold of me again. No, thought I, you need not; for you will come off worse than you did before.