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Quotes About Adversity

When the going gets tough, the leeches are nowhere to be found, but the real people - the real friends - are with you through thick and thin.
~ Quinton Jackson
You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
~ Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.
~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
~ Napoleon Hill
If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
~ Kapil Dev
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges.
~ Barack Obama
Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down.
~ Stella Maeve
Of all the things you choose in life, you don't get to choose what your nightmares are. You don't pick them; they pick you.
~ John Irving
Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all.
~ Ernest Shackleton
You learn to rise above a lot of bad things that happen in your life. And you have to keep going.
~ Lauren Bacall
When things are going bad, there's going to be some good that's going to come from it.
~ Jocko Willink
A life of anybody is not perfect; there is always things that happen, and that is what makes it interesting.
~ Kevin De Bruyne
Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.
~ Epictetus
You don't stop living because bad things happen. You keep going.
~ Gina Neely
Sometimes in life, when bad things happen to us, or things aren't going our way, or we're faced with a challenge or a problem, it's how you look at the problem; it's how you do it to change your mindset, to dilute the negativity.
~ Alesha Dixon
People make mistakes, and bad things happen.
~ Marcus Luttrell
I was raised in a reform synagogue. I think we all bring with us a sense of when hard things happen to us, we find ourselves asking questions of why are these things happening to me at this time in my life. I think in that sense, there's a certain resonance that I carry. It's more of a spiritual resonance as opposed to particularly of Judaism.
~ Michael Stuhlbarg
Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
~ Manti Te'o
Bad things happen, and you can only be so prepared.
~ Alexandra Petri
In football, sometimes things happen that are outside of your control, leading the club to make decisions.
~ Edinson Cavani
I have millions of dollars, and I don't know finance. I've had some bad things happen in my career. I've got to educate myself. I sit down with my finance guy once a month and go over everything, line by line.
~ Chris Bosh
Things happen for some reason. I don't know what, but I just think about the positives, focus on getting better, and that's it.
~ Cain Velasquez
I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.
~ Katey Sagal
Bad things happen sometimes.
~ Adam Ant