Quotes About Adversity

It takes someone with a unique background to stand up to the threat of a strike and win.

One thing I can tell you: with the threat of death hanging over you, you live life to the fullest.

You can find peace amidst the storms that threaten you.

There have been some incidents in which I was threatened and a couple of instances where I had to physically fight. Fortunately, I won in both instances.

Before, if I'm in the wrong situation I tended to fight back and react in a way I know I shouldn't. If I feel backed into a corner or threatened, I will defend myself. Obviously it's wrong.

Yes, I've often been threatened by hunters, by horsemeat butchers, and seal murderers... I am still alive!

I was once told that I had become too confident and that it made me less likeable. Many successful people will get this at some point, because the people who haven't followed a similar path can be threatened by someone who has and is unabashed about it.

Those who feel threatened by you or your success will seek to tear you down.

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

As a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1950s, I sometimes met insults when I ventured outside of Chinatown or my neighborhood. I have even been spat on and threatened with a knife. I could have let my anger fester until it became hate. However, I realized they were isolated incidents, and I simply got on with my life.

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. And then you let it go and try something else.

When your life is threatened, whether it's by human beings or by disease or whatever, you come to appreciate life.

It's hard to find someone who did as many drugs for as long and in such dangerous combinations as Nic - spending years going to Oakland and finding abandoned warehouses, getting beaten up, getting threatened by a guy with a crossbow. By all accounts, he shouldn't have made it, but he did.

It is not possible to know how to behave in threatening situations before you even end up in such a situation.

He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

If you are lucky enough to never experience any sort of adversity, we won't know how resilient you are. It's only when you're faced with obstacles, stress, and other environmental threats that resilience, or the lack of it, emerges: Do you succumb or do you surmount?

For many Europeans the next decade looks to be filled with threats rather than opportunities.

I've had threats.

The question is not, will there be difficulties and threats to our existence, but how will we deal with them and what can we learn from them. How can they become blessings to society, as a life threatening disease is to an individual, by teaching us about the meaning of our life and existence?

I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

My family has equally suffered abductions, attacks and life threats, but I have continued my struggle for justice.

I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

I don't care about hate and threats from climate crisis deniers. I just ignore them.

I come from Varanasi. Abuses, profanities and threats don't bother me. I am 6-foot-tall guy and I can take care of myself.