Read quote“You win and you lose, and if you don’t know how to lose you don’t know how to live.”
About Adversity
Challenges, hardship, and resilience in difficult circumstances.
The collection
Words on Adversity
Read quote“There’s all these self-doubts, all these fears, like a wave of them, and that’s usually been the thing that’s stopped me.”
Read quote“A la gloria no se llega por un camino de rosas.”
Read quote“Look, this thing is not easy.”
Read quote“I was jobless and hungry when I came to Mumbai first.”
Read quote“I faced imminent death at the age of 13 during partition. Yet, I managed to survive. Thereafter, I feared nothing in life.”
Read quote“I hope I never recover from this.”
Read quote“Vocês vão ter que me engolir!”
Read quote“So we won, but we haven’t won.”
Read quote“Don't mistake the difficult with the impossible.”
Read quote“Everything we achieved had to be fought for.”
Read quote“I suppose my determination covered all the pain.”
Read quote““We never fly to a man in the hour of distress unless we regard that man as the truest and sincerest of our well-wishers and friends.””
Read quote“I always had to prove myself.”
Read quote“I feel that I would rather face a lynching stake in civilised America than try to make a speech before the most intellectual and critical audience in the world.”
Read quote“People tell me I am the unluckiest F1 driver of my era, but actually I’m the lucky one.”
Read quote“Sólo lo difícil es estimulante.”
Read quote“Perseverance is the badge of saints—the target of our foes—the glory of Christ—and the care of all believers.”
Read quote“It’s not for lack of trying.”
Read quote“We need to be strong mentally because we need to deal with every situation on the pitch.”
