Quotes About Adversity

The rejection that we all take and the sadness and the aggravation and the loss of jobs and all of the things that we live through in our lives, without a sense of humor, I don't know how people make it.

I've had way more rejections than I've had jobs.

I had my share of rejections.

I experienced rejection numerous times.

There is no level of professional rejection that can compare to almost dying.

Don't take rejection personally.

Rejection is never personal, so don't let it consume you.

Failure and rejection are important. Otherwise, you won't value success.

You get rejection throughout your life and that shapes you eventually to what you become.

There was a lot of disappointment and rejection that came really early in my life, until I had to change my mindset and become even stronger.

The judgment, criticism, and rejection you face as an actor can be overwhelming.

There are certain roles that you really want to get, but you need to learn to deal with the rejection.

This game is full of rejection. As an actor, you are being told 'No' an awful lot of the time. You have to keep getting up and carrying on to get to where you want to go.

Every rejection, every phone call from my agent to say, 'It didn't go your way,' I felt the layers of my skin growing. 'OK, cool, let's move on.' You have to get beyond the fear of rejection and plow on because it's intense.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.

I relate my life a lot to 'Cool Runnings,' the movie.

I think a lot of people can relate to that school is pretty lousy for a lot of people, and it just shows that you don't have to be perfect and you can still be a hero.

You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.

I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening.

As human beings, we can relate to our dark aspects and trying to overcome our dark aspects as Xena did.

I've seen every bad or mean comment related to what I do for a living, and I'm used to it.

The first half of the 2014-15 season was a disaster for me in relation to my weight.

Every job that you have might not be the perfect job, but you really take away different things, and you create relationships.

I have been heartbroken once and it has affected all my relationships from there on. But now I look at it as a occupational hazard. If you are in the meat market at some point you are gonna get mad cows disease.