Black Hawk Quotes

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

It has always seemed to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshifit way, know more about life than those who govern.

Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of.

You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.

What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

Neither great nor good things were ever attained without loss and hardships. Those that would reap and not labour, must faint with the wind, and perish in disappointments; but an hair of my head shall not fall, without the providence of my Father that is over all.

If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

To the proud the slightest repulse or disappointment is the last indignity.

You can fall out of a tree pose with ease, or with frustration and a sense of defeat. Just like you can take a spill in your life and decide to dust yourself off - with a chuckle or an annoyed grunt - and get back up, or you can stay down, lie there, and give up. It's entirely up to you. It's your life, and your practice.

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

Success is a poor teacher

It strains a man's philosophy the worst kind to laugh when he gets beat.

If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me...if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me.

Life often seems like a long shipwreck of which the debris are friendship, glory, and love. - The shores of existence are strewn with them.

I've always been drawn to stories and characters facing some sort of struggle against forces beyond our control, be it love, loss, betrayal.

Though life is very glorious, it is difficult.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.

Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.

We're all products of our environment, and I suspect that strength of will - the feeling, "I'm going to be able to do whatever you put in front of me" - is honed in an environment where not everything is easy. Ironically, growing up in that environment, you don't have a sense of aggrievement or entitlement. You just have a sense of overcoming.

If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: But O, if Fortune fill thy sail With more than a propitious gale, Take half thy canvas in.

Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all, other people can't stop you. Only you can stop you.