Adversity Quotes

"Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful."

- Zig Ziglar

"Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters."

- Victor Hugo

""Adversity, and perseverance and all these things can shape you. They can give you a value and a self-esteem that is priceless.""

- Scott Hamilton

""When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday, it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.""

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed."

- Anthony Powell

"We must both, I'm afraid, recognize that, as we grow older, we become like old cars - more and more repairs and replacements are necessary."

- C. S. Lewis

"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it."

- Golda Meir

"What a weary time those years were — to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability."

- Charles Bukowski

"Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief."

- Nicholas Sparks

"When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you."

- Gail Carson Levine

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

- Jesse Owens

"The first thing a hurdler learns is how to fall."

- Tonie Campbell

"It’s very hard in the beginning to understand that the whole idea is not to beat the other runners. Eventually you learn that the competition is against the little voice inside you that wants you to quit."

- George Sheehan

"Let's just say it and be done with it. Racing hurts. But here's another truth: having put in the effort to prepare for a race and then not giving it your all hurts even more. The first kind of hurt goes away in hours or a day. The second kind of hurt can last a lifetime."

- Larry Shapiro

"No marathon gets easier later. The halfway point only marks the end of the beginning."

- Joe Henderson

"If you feel bad at 10 miles, you're in trouble. If you feel bad at 20 miles, you're normal. If you don't feel bad at 26 miles, you're abnormal."

- Rob de Castella

"There is magic in misery. Just ask any runner."

- Dean Karnazes

"Hard times are sometimes blessings in disguise. We do have to suffer but in the end it makes us strong, better and wise."

- Anurag Prakash Ray

"Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed."

- Bob Riley

"All of life is a test and we all have our challenges to meet."

- Marjory Sheba

"The road to athletic greatness is not marked by perfection, but the ability to constantly overcome adversity and failure"

- Nike

"Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

- C.S. Lewis

"When a woman is assaulted, one of the first questions people ask is, Did you say no? This question assumes that the answer was always yes, and that it is her job to revoke the agreement. To defuse the bomb she was given. But why are they allowed to touch us until we physically fight them off? Why is the door open until we have to slam it shut?"

- Chanel Miller

"Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands—two equally harmful disciplines."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"May misfortune follow you the rest of your life, and never catch up."

"Running is nothing more than a series of arguments between the part of your brain that wants to stop and the part that wants to keep going."

"When you face difficult times, know that challenges are not sent to destroy you. They're sent to promote, increase, and strengthen you."

"Sunday is the day I scheduled all my Monday panic attacks"

- Unknown

"My Sunday workout: Mental gymnastics about all the work due tomorrow."

- Unknown

"I am a fierce advocate for my baby."