Quotes About Adversity

I think back and I really feel for what he (Roger Maris) went through, for all the negative stuff that was going on in his life. I wish it didn't happen.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

When you fight something long enough, it becomes a center pole right in your life and you count on it to be there to fight with.

Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move(...)

Maybe the impossible is possible when you take everything else away.

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

You can only whine for so long. Then you need to get your life back.

Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.

Once again, her parents' problems had run through her life like a piece of heavy equipment, smashing everything in their way.

Somehow life doesn't always pay off to those who are most insistent.

No matter how many times you have failed you must keep going forward. Only when you have become humble will you begin to grasp the meaning of life.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Life did not present its sunny side to thee.

Thus Arm in Arm with thee I dare defy my century into the lists.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

wild animals in captivity and humans in civilization share an important quality: we are both examples of species living outside their natural habitats.

Do not fall asleep in your enemy's dream.

The hard part was living the contrast between being rich and being broke. It was like being smart, and waking up one day to find yourself dumb as a rock, but able to remember your former brains.

child psychologists who said "John prefers to play by himself" were dead wrong. I played by myself because I was a failure at playing with others. I was alone as a result of my own limitations, and being alone was one of the bitterest disappointments of my young life.

First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead snakes, he chased me and I learned how to run.

It was the first place where I was thrown together with children I didn't know. It didn't go well.