Quotes About Adversity

There is one good thing about reaching the bottom. When you get there, there's nothing left to do but fight your way back up or die.

I was determined not to sit around and watch my life deteriorate. I kept reaching out in hope and honesty that someone would find me. I never gave up hope. I fell flat on my face and got up again.

If a kid is born into a tough situation with no means of dealing with it, you end up with kids who are mentally ill and have no way of reaching out.

You see a lot of depression among injured sports stars who would rather be reaching their goals or at least doing what they love doing.

I am interested in how human beings react to crisis and conflict.

Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

I learned that one's mentality can influence how they react to physical obstacles.

In living life at 90 percent, the formula is life is 10 percent of what happens to you and 90 percent of how you react to it.

What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

Life isn't always great, but it's all about how we react to things.

Sometimes players don't like to be dropped and, when they don't like something, they react.

We all have difficult moments in our careers. It is how you react to them that counts.

It is important in football how you react to things when things aren't going so well.

It is easy to react if everything is going great.

When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.

When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.

Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.

Even when a drunk guy, a program director, was slurring his words and telling me what to do with my career, I didn't react to him in a negative way. You kind of have to joke back with them to put them in their place.

You don't know how you'll react to things until you live through them.

The way you react to each challenge forms who you become.

No one knows how they would react to a horrible situation until it happens to them.

The important thing is to react well to your mistakes.

I learnt a lot about how to react to tough, pressure situations.