Quotes About Adversity

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive.

After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all.

Talent was not rare; the ability to survive having it was.

If I had been brilliant or a genius, I wouldn't have needed to break the law just to survive.

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before.

You've got to learn to survive a defeat. That's when you develop character.

Even as a child, I found a way to survive.

We imagine things - that we wouldn't be able to survive, but in fact, we do survive. We have no choice, so we do it.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard. In order to respond to that, he had to become a hard man, with very hard rules, very hard discipline for himself, very hard days, hard work, et cetera.

There's a difference between someone who's 'harsh' and someone who is 'hard.' Life was hard. You lived in the South, as my grandparents did, and you had to survive. That is hard.

There have been moments where I'm like, 'I don't know how I'm going to survive and pay next month's rent.' And the next month I'm filming a movie in New York City.

Day-to-day concerns really trumped big dreams for quite a while in my life. I was so freaked out about money. And until, honestly, I was in my early thirties and made 'Girlfight,' that anxiety was a real issue: How are you going to live? How are you going to survive?

I think it comes from far away inside me, to be strong to survive everything that comes my way. I think, going back to the beginning, feeling like an alien in an English school when I was eight, that set up my pride very early on. I think I'm very defensive, but I'm trying not to be like that anymore.

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

When I was at Hinckley I was on £200 a week. I was flying around getting myself into trouble here and there. It was a learning curve, relying on money that wasn't coming and having to survive.

It is in the genes of cities to bounce back from disasters - whether natural or man made. The denizens of suburbia have no choice but to survive and move on. But it is the manner in which different cities respond to emergencies that sets them apart.

I was just a scrawny, skinny kid just trying to survive like any other boy in high school.

That is the only way to survive in the Premier League. Every game is a battle, whether you're playing the top team or the one at the bottom of the table.

Humor was not important only for me, humor was important for this nation for centuries, to survive, you know.

As a human being, you find a way to survive, moment by moment, every single day of your life.

For most of my adult life, I always had this pain in my gut, but because I had to survive, and I had to pay the rent, I needed the roof over our head and food for us to eat and some clothes.

I think there's definitely a potential there for a congregation to survive without the Crystal Cathedral. The congregation is the people. It's not the building.

We have to fight sometimes to survive.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.