Quotes About Adversity

The accident for sure was one of the most important experiences of my life. During the course of my rehabilitation I had people who were exactly what I needed to be inspired.

I had to teach myself to walk and run again during rehabilitation.

I guess, when I go there in the centre, when I do my rehabilitation, I look at the people with only one leg and I actually envy them because I'd love to have one leg. I guess the ones that only have one leg, they envy the ones that they are only missing one leg below the knee, and on and on.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Reign of Fire is something I know how to do, because I've played tough so much.

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

Do you know how many times my career has been close to rock bottom? Each time, I was like, 'Girl, figure it out. Reinvent yourself.'

When my record company rejected 'Full Moon Fever', I was hurt so bad. I was pretty far along in my career at that point. I'd never had anything rejected; I'd never really even had a comment. So when that happened, it was really just a board to the forehead. But then, finally, I picked myself up.

I've certainly been in situations where I've been rejected and endangered and had my humanity put in question - just as almost every woman on the planet has.

It was funny, a lot of people who rejected me as a player, later said, 'Oh, we did it to help you.' I met a coach years later who said, 'I didn't take you at that time for your own good!'

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

I started off as an Australian model. I had so many knockbacks, having short hair and being rejected, and I always thought: I'm never gonna get to where I want to get unless I start looking more feminine.

Some of the things we do are great, but they often have these iterations that are not great. We screw up sometimes. We get rejected.

I've gotten rejected hundreds of times.

They rejected me as a player. Newcastle said I wasn't going to be big or strong enough to make the grade, Burnley said the same. Most people said the same to be fair.

Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.

Rejection is the one constant of human experience.

I think all great innovations are built on rejections.

Certain things will always hurt: rejection, or loss.

Rejection is just a part of life.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

Nobody gets through life without experiencing some form of rejection, which is why everybody knows how awful it feels.

You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.