Quotes About Adversity

When it seems like the whole world thinks you're bad, it's hard to hang on to your goodness.

Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.

Now I don't look at life where I'd say, 'Oh gosh, my life's over if I don't have films anymore.' My approach is that there's so much more for me to do.

I failed, got back up. I failed, got back up.

I gotta be able to beat good guys at any moment. I think that's what I'm taking.

There's always someone that's dealing with a bigger challenge than you are. You've gotta have perspective.

Everything I've learned, I've learned with the beatings I've gotten from all of the bad choices I made.

Governing has always been hard.

Sometimes I have two or three players around me, grabbing me.

I would say my sense of adventure outweighs my grace.

I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

Everyone has their dreams and their rise and their own version of a fall from grace.

Nobody loses gracefully and easily, but there is a way to go about it.

I know how to be a gracious loser.

I had lice in third grade, and my mom shaved all my hair off.

I didn't go to the 12th grade... I stopped at 11.

Everyone is told to go to high school and get good grades and go to college and get good grades and then get a job and then get a better job. There's no one really telling a story about how they totally blew it, and they figured it out.

I always seem to be singing against the grain.

Fame comes and fame goes, but you have to be able to laugh about yourself and to take it with a grain of salt.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

In my position, I'm always going to get a bit of flak. I take it with a grain of salt.

I guess coming after 'Country Grammar' and everybody thinking, 'Well maybe, that was it.' To come back with something like 'Nellyville' and to have people accept it and appreciate it the way they did, that was a great move.

I grew up with a marine grandfather. I was never allowed to say 'can't' or 'no', and I was never allowed to back down.

That's what made me a man, having to fend for myself and being in a situation where there is no dad, no grandma, and no mom to help you. It changed the person that I am today.