Quotes About Adversity

I've always liked the abuse on the football field. It inspires me, makes me feel better, I thrive on it.

I thrive on fear.

In a thriving culture, you celebrate your achievements. In an exhausted one, you proclaim your disadvantages.

Seeing the world around you clearly is a critical step in developing an idea for a business, carrying out that idea, and then thriving with an ongoing concern. Through choice, predilection, lack of education, impatience, or other causes, the entrepreneur lives, in a way, outside the mainstream.

I saw so many crazy things growing up. I've seen friends go to jail and come out, and now they're thriving. So it's made me really resilient.

I aspirated some food into my throat and choked. I was in a coma for a little while, too.

It is such a cut throat industry where you get knocked down so much and get rejected so much. If you do not back yourself up, no one else is going to so you really need to learn to get up, shake the sand off your chest and keep going.

Ah, but it's nice to be in the opposition, nice to be a bone in somebody's throat.

Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat.

When you take a lot of stick you want to ram it down people's throats.

I can't take 24-hour news. Life is what it is, and we can handle it, but when you're getting it pushed down your throat, it's too much.

The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire.

Success is not the absence of failure; it's the persistence through failure.

I've been through all the bad parts of the streets.

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

I strongly believe that through dedication and perseverance, one can overcome adversity to achieve success. It is a privilege to accept membership in the Horatio Alger Association, an organization which promotes this principle.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

If you see me as just the princess then you misunderstand who I am and what I have been through.

I'm so grateful for everything I went through. We learn from the hardships.

When I first started coming to Calcutta, it brought back a lot of memories... the hardships I went through, the situations I was placed in, and the possibilities of those situations becoming so hostile.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

Scars show toughness: that you've been through it, and you're still standing.

I don't know anyone who has made it through this life with it being super easy. Life is hard.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.