Quotes About Adversity

After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

I've had five surgeries that could have ended most people's careers. But because of the fact that I'm resilient and have a lot of pride, I refused to let myself go out except on my terms. An injury is not going to take me out.

Disasters happen. Nature refuses to cooperate with the best-laid plans of kings and lesser men alike.

If something comes that it is so extreme that you have difficulty thinking of it as a good thing, don't think of it as a good thing and kid yourself. To the extent that you can, don't label it a bad thing. Refusing to label something a bad thing opens you up to possibilities you would not have even considered otherwise.

One is either destroyed by adapting or for refusing to.

I was bullied and regarded as little bit of an oddball myself.

I know I'm regarded as an establishment figure, but I was crucified by the establishment for 'Oh! What a Lovely War', 'Gandhi' and 'Cry Freedom.'

I'm not going to pre-empt anything regarding how my career's going to go because I'm always prepared for the worst.

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

I believe my own demons would have caught up with me regardless of my race and regardless of whether I worked at 'The Times.'

U.S. Speedskating has been riddled with problems since when I started my career, and we were always able to look past that. When it came down to performing on the ice, regardless of funding issues, we were always able to make it happen. And that's what it's all about.

I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.

Regardless of who you are, what sport you chose, or how much success you achieved, playing the game is all about getting you ready for life.

Regardless of the magnitude, the crowd, or the pay-per-view sales, the goal is to beat the guy in front of me.

Everyone has been injured, regardless of whether they're an athlete or not.

At the end of the day, 'Shuffle Along' is about people coming together and making something extraordinary - and history not necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of necessarily being kind to them. It's about the love of doing, regardless of the consequences.

Come fight night, there will be nerves, but it's how you react to those nerves - doing what you need to regardless - that's how you win fights.

A loss is just a loss. You get up again, dust yourself off, go at it again regardless of the circumstances. That's the way I look at it.

Regardless of where the offer comes from, I'll choose characters that are inspiring and challenging.

You have to practice the life you want regardless of what the circumstances are.

I just go out there to show them I'm going to play the right way regardless of what position or what situation I'm in.

I saw some comments in regards to my son, people saying: 'I hope your son gets corona.' That's the hard part for me. If you respond to that, people then go: 'Ah, we've got him' and they keep doing it.

I was born at the end of the 1993. The regime stopped giving food to the people. Three million people died from 1995 to 1998. It's one of the world's worst man-made famines in history.

I'm fascinated by the ways people under repressive regimes still manage to share information - and joy.