Quotes About Adversity

I did it the hard way, I fought everyone I could and I would not have it any other way.

I've learned a lot the hard way.

I could have been banned. That's what I was most scared about. All the hard work being for nothing. It was basically my livelihood and my sport being taken away from me. It was everything.

My mom and my dad wanted my brother and I to have a better life, you know, better education, better jobs. It was probably harder, much, much harder, for my parents. When you're a kid, you can learn a language much more easily; I learned English in less than a year.

I hope I get credit when I beat Jessie Vargas. I hope I get the credit I deserve. People want me to lose and go away, but guess what? I worked harder than ever for this fight. I'm not losing to Jessie Vargas.

You have to play the cards you are dealt and if it has made it harder, it doesn't matter, you still have to get the deal done.

I've always said, the harder the golf course, the better I play.

What I do know, at least what I think I have learned from my experiences in business, is that when there is a rush for everyone to do the same thing, it becomes more difficult to do. Not easier. Harder.

Being a day player, period, is one of the hardest things you can do as an actor.

I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.

We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.

It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.

I've seen a great deal of hardship in my life.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

You wouldn't wish hardship on anyone, but when it comes, you would be crazy not to see the huge growth that will come from it.

I don't wish hardship on anybody. My background was one of being very difficult, very hard, and they were subject to the times I lived in. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

The age-old mistake, which has stunted countless lives, is the assumption that because physical hardship in childhood makes you physically tough, emotional hardship must make you emotionally tough.

The ability to endure and accept hardships became my mantra.

Everybody goes through hardships but hardships make you the person you are, and I feel that is important.

You either lose your way or you break through the hardships and play well. There is a massive difference.

Who sees Wanderlei Silva today, with all the marketing, with a good gym and getting paid well to fight, they don't know the difficulties I went through. I went through a lot of hardships in my life.

You're going to have hardships, you're going to have a lot of good plays, you're going to have bad plays.