Quotes About Adversity

I definitely didn't have a happy childhood.

I was a happy man, never working. Sometimes I saw days with no money to eat. It was not so difficult.

I will not put up with bullying and harassment - certainly not after the experiences I've had.

I've been trying to reassert myself as a human and not just a current events story. I should not be the face of online harassment.

I don't believe losing my unbeaten record has delayed me in my ambitions. I believe it was just a hard lesson learned and that's it.

I don't really think about having had a hard life. It was just my life, and it's all I knew. It made me who I am - all the good and bad - and it's where all of the songs on Here For The Party came from. I've lived them all.

I had a very hard life in Kazakhstan.

We have to laugh at how hard life can be and how screwed up we can be at times.

You have to remember, I had come from a pretty hard life. There was all this abuse and everything else, so the idea of fighting for sport was pretty heavy. Fighting to me was about fighting for your life, you know.

The hard things in life, the things you really learn from, happen with a clear mind.

I'm always choosing the hard things, the things that aren't easy.

You read these management books that say, 'These are the hard things about running a company.' But those aren't really the hard things. The hard things are when you have to layoff half your company, or you have to fire your best friend. Or you have to figure out a way not to go bankrupt.

I'm someone who has come through situations where I saw hard things.

You have to learn to live with the hard things in life and go on.

I know when the time gets rough, I think I'm better than anybody in a hard time than anyone in the country.

I've had such a hard time with dyslexia my whole life. When I was a child, I didn't learn to read until I was a lot older, and I was behind in my classes; it was such a challenge.

Apparently, Bette Davis and a lot of actresses had a hard time in their 30s, too.

I had a hard time growing up, and boxing kind of served as my second family.

I can give anyone a hard time.

The war made me stronger; it was a very hard time for me and my family. I don't want to drag that with me forever, but I don't want to forget about it, either.

It's never easy when your team is having a hard time.

I try to see the lightness of life, and that comes from having a hard time growing up.

Family comes together when you deal with hard times because it's the only way you know how to cope.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.