Adversity Quotes

"The wind grew cold. The leaves turned red. The bark turned red. The soil turned red. The stars turned red. Something was wrong with October."

- T.R. Darling

"October was always the least dependable of months … full of ghosts and shadows."

- Joy Fielding

"It was hard to have somebody else put their door in your face when you’re going for things that you know you’re qualified for."

- Katherine Johnson

"There were times when I had to wait at the same counter until the white customers’ food was ready. So it was very unfair."

- Katherine Johnson

"We all end up dead, it’s just a question of how and why."

- William Wallace

"When will the lesson be learned! You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth!"

- Winston Churchill

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."

- Fa Zhou

"The greatest battles in wrestling are often fought within ourselves."

- Eddie Guerrero

"The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment."

- Lex Luger

"Nothing will beat you more than life will, and I think that jiu jitsu is the better way of translating how to go through those struggles loving what you’re doing."

- Roberto Cyborg Abreu

"Here you will have a bad time all the time"

- Walid Ismail

"The demands of jiu-jitsu temper your spirit in a deeply beneficial way, but it can also drain you."

- Roy Dean

"Be sad. Be mad. Be frustrated. Scream. Cry. Sulk."

- Kobe Bryant

"Everything negative — pressure, challenges — are all an opportunity for me to rise."

- Kobe Bryant

"If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America."

- Nelson Mandela

"The desire to belong often overpowers the desire to improve."

- James Clear

"Most people die with their music still locked up inside them."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Music could ache and hurt, that beautiful music was a place a suffering man could hide."

- Pat Conroy

"The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself--the invisible battles inside all of us--that's where it's at."

- Jesse Owens

"Beautiful souls are shaped by ugly experiences."

- Matshona Dhliwayo

"Addiction is a disease, but it’s the only one you can get yelled at for having."

- Mitch Hedberg

"Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."

- Mother Teresa

"If you kick a stone in anger, you’ll hurt your own foot."

- Korean Proverb

"We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, ‘Blessed are they that mourn.’"

- C.T. Studd

""Life is hard. After all, it kills you.""

- Katharine Hepburn

"You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

- The Virgin Suicides

"Wrestling is a dance with adversity, where strength meets strategy and spirit never yields."

"Adversity introduces a wrestler to himself."

"Addiction: the disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc that you created or care about the people whose lives you shattered."

"Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside."