Quotes About Adversity

My mother died when I was young, and I was filming all the time. I was all over the place. Acting was the one constant.

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

I've lost balls in every hazard and on every course I've tried. But when I lose a ball in the ball washer, it's time to take stock.

He who bravely endures evils, in time reaps the reward.

Just because you lose doesn't make you a loser. It's not the same fight every time.

In times of recession there are massive opportunities and fortunes to be made, so for new up and coming entrepreneurs, this is the time to go and start a business.

Like Lyndon Johnson, President Obama understands that timidity in a time of troubles is a prescription for failure.

Strength is one of those things you're supposed to have. You don't feel that you have it at the time you're going through it.

America beats on you so hard the whole time. You are constantly being pummeled by other people's rights and their sense of patriotism.

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave

I had a hard time at Chelsea mainly because I was injured much of the time. Every time I recovered from one injury I seemed to get a new one and it set me back again.

You're better off missing a bus or an airplane once in a while than you are getting there too early all the time.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Up until the time I was 31 years old, in Spain, I still didn't know how I was going to pay the rent.

It is a curious fact that in bad days we can very vividly recall the good time that is now no more; but that in good days, we have only a very cold and imperfect memory of the bad.

I definitely didn't have a lot of money. I had been fired from a record store. I was just trying to get by. I was on unemployment. I didn't have anything going full-time.

We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.

Smile...it kills time between disasters.

Losing an arm is kinda lame at one point, but at the same time, so much good has come out of it.

We spend a lot of time playing defence against bad things. So, in the US, one of the focusses has been this huge Keystone Pipeline project, another has been the coal ports on the Pacific Ocean.

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck... I was having a hard time a couple of years ago... I'm a good driver, I just had bad luck.