Quotes About Adversity

I was fortunate. And I hate using the word lucky, but I was very, very lucky. Because, all of those things were around me man. The violence, the drugs, the abuse of women. All these things were present in my life. And I take a step back and I try to reflect on my journey and what helped me out.

When the comedy community turned on me, I had a lot of reflecting to do.

In failure, children learn how to struggle with adversity and how to confront fear. By reflecting on failure, children begin to see how to correct themselves and then try again with better results.

I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.

A lot of times, I faced bullies - or the 'big dogs' at school. What I wanted 'Red Rising' to be is not necessarily an indictment on bullies, but it reflects my experiences and attitudes that I had with bullies growing up.

I know reform is never easy. But I know reform is right.

Crisis for others is a source of despair. For me, it's an opportunity to bring reform.

Our problem is not adopting reforms, which we will do without question. It is not reaching an objective, which we will meet. But it is finding an end to the recession.

I think it's refreshing when the people you're looking up to mess up just like you do, but somehow, things, in their own way, work out.

We live in the age of the refugee, the age of the exile.

The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong.

I was three years old, so I actually don't remember much of the refugee process.

From age six to 12, I lived in seven different countries, moving from one refugee camp to another, hoping we would be wanted.

I arrived in this country as a refugee child with my sister and my mother.

When I was volunteering with Hurricane Katrina refugees in Houston in 2005, I first started thinking about the whole phenomenon of grace under pressure.

It can be refugees, it can be a pregnant mother, it can be a 15-year-old... homelessness can happen to everybody.

In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.

I refuse to bow to the cancel mob.

I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.

I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.

Over the years, I've had to learn how to deal with people who refuse to take me seriously. That's where I learnt the blunt side of my character.

My truculent opponents are out to settle scores that have nothing to do with Sherpa, and I refuse to allow my enemies to drag my Sherpa family into their fight with me.

Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.

I had acted opposite Sathyaraj in 'Uchchi Thanai Mugarndhal.' It was a role which some actresses refused to do.