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Certainly I accept my role and responsibility as a public figure and a lot of it you take the good with the bad, dealing with different adversities in life, you just try to do the best you can do.
Sep 10, 2025
There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it.
Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Sometimes in tragedy we find our life's purpose - the eye sheds a tear to find its focus.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
When its dark enough you can see the stars.
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
A problem is a chance for you to do your best.
All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are.
The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
Believe you can and you're halfway there.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.