Quotes about Adversity

It's just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is, a step, an inch, you just got to keep moving forward.

Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

If you fall, fall on your back. If you can look up, you can get up.

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Not everybody is going to agree with your dream. I'm sure you've had border bullies in your life as you moved into your career. And what we don't want to do is focus upon them.

When I was in Class II, we used to walk about 5 km. to school. I did not know of Olympics or even athletics then. One day, a friend went in a car and left me behind. I was so angry, I wanted to run and outrace the car. I ran so fast that I tripped and fractured my knee.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

I'm not sure that I want to be without some lack of confidence. If you are too sure of yourself, you don't grow. You may feel confident in some things, but other fields come up as a challenge. And if you don't anticipate trouble, you will be in trouble.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

Poverty possesses this disease; through want it teaches a man evil.