Adversity Quotes

"The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There’s no time to do anything else."

- Chad le Clos

"There’s just something about that cold rush that I know I hate and a lot of other swimmers hate."

- Natalie Coughlin

"Adversity causes some to break; others to break records."

- William Ward

"I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it."

- Harriet Tubman

"I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it appears to me, be bad enough to send him into hell if he could."

- Harriet Tubman

"I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land."

- Harriet Tubman

"I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy."

- Harriet Tubman

"Slavery is the next thing to hell."

- Harriet Tubman

"To lose a friend is the greatest of all losses."

- Cicero

"Nobody ever gets over losses like that. It's just part of your broken heart forever."

- Cheryl Strayed

"But fate ordains that dearest friends must part"

- Edward Young

"Future shock is the shattering stress and disorientation that we induce in individuals by subjecting them to too much change in too short a time."

- Alvin Toffler

"The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students."

- Hank Johnson

"Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools."

- J. K. Rowling

"A friend who dies, it’s something of you who dies"

- Gustave Flaubert

"The loss of a friend is the greatest of losses"

- Publilius Syrus

"Entrepreneurship is really hard and painful - I'm not sure I'd recommend it for anyone who can't handle the extreme stress."

- Naval Ravikant

"A bad system will beat a good person every time."

- W. Edwards Deming

"You may go through a lot of good times, you may go through a lot of bad times, you just have to try to prepare yourself as best as you can, and for me, that's just sticking with my family."

- Zion Williamson

"If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen."

- Harry S. Truman

"Every time we launch a feature, people yell at us."

- Angelo Sotira

"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded and some men never leave the country. Life is unfair."

- John F. Kennedy

"Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender citizen of this country."

- Zachary Quinto

"We're sick of hearing people say, “That band is so gay,” or “Those guys are fags.” Gay is not a synonym for shitty. If you wanna say something’s shitty, say it’s shitty. Stop being such homophobic assholes."

- Pete Wentz

"Worry-free Wednesday! Because worry is like a rocking star: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere."

"Life Is Tough"

"Infertility is a loss. It’s the loss of a dream. It’s the loss of an assumed future. And, like every loss, it will be grieved."

"It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; It’s even harder to give up when you know it’s everything you want."

"It’s hard to wait around for something you know might never happen; It’s even hard to give up when you know it’s everything you want."

"The struggle is part of the story."