Quotes about Adversity

Often we fear the most difficult experiences of life only to discover that these are the experiences that bring Jesus Christ closer to us.

I think the World Trade Center should be rebuilt as the World Trade Center, only stronger and one story taller. I hate what they're doing with the World Trade Center site.

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

I was lucky to come from a difficult area. It teaches you not just about football but also life.

The human spirit is so resilient, and failure teaches you so much.

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

There's too much at stake for you to let some little thing distract you and pull you down into defeat.

Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a peak until you're coming down. And that's it you know, you never know what's round the corner. But it's all good. "If you want the rainbow, you've gotta put up with the rain." Do you know which "philosopher" said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits.

If you can laugh in the face of adversity, you're bullet-proof.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.