Quotes About Adversity

I don't care who you are, you hear those boos.

You know how you hear people say that they had people in their lives who told them they couldn't make it or they couldn't do something? That's not me. That's not my story. My brothers have been there with me since day one. We've been through everything together - good and bad.

An actor hears 'no' more often than the average person. A black human and a black woman on top of that? That's a lot of no's.

Don't let the good days get to your head, and don't let the bad days get to your heart.

I know what it's like to have my heart broken. It is not adorable.

Sometimes a little heartbreak is a lesson, and the best thing to do is just learn the lesson.

Reading cookbooks will help with just about anything in your life, including heartbreak.

I think everything in life comes in threes: heartbreak and all that. You've got to do the full round in order to learn.

You can't avoid heartbreak, you can't avoid a lot of things. You have to go through them in order to become the person you're going to be.

The experiences, heartbreak and downfall in my life has made me a stronger woman.

It's heartbreaking to watch people working against themselves.

There will come a day when someone calls to tell me my column's been binned, and that will be a really hard day, and I've already got it set up so that they'll ring someone else first - because I don't want to be given that news when I'm walking down the street, because it will be really heartbreaking.

When I was making Heartless, I was going through a real tough stuff stage in my career and life.

We've all had someone break our hearts or have been fired from a job or have been cheated.

It's important not to lose focus; so many things can happen. People try to build this fire between the clubs. The heat is going to get more and more.

One knew in advance that life in New York would not be easy, but there were cheap rents in cold-water lofts without heat, and the excitement of being here made up for those hardships. I didn't move to New York to make a fortune.

Having to manage fatigue is something I and many people with MS have to deal with, and heat is no friend to my MS, either; it can be devastating.

I get a lot of heat from the Left, which is bizarre. I get a lot of heat from the Right, too, but the vitriol is from the Left.

Sometimes you get looked at harder than other people. I can take the criticism and I can take the heat.

When I get to Heaven, I'll want to fight.

To shun one's cross is to make it heavier.

Listen, anyone in the heavyweight division in the top ten, there is no easy fight. I don't care what you say.

I will always find something to challenge myself. I will go up to heavyweight or down to middleweight.

You can train with heavyweight guys, you can train with 205 guys but this is training. A fight is completely different.