Quotes About Adversity

It's not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

Corrections are good, they keep us all humble.

You have to accept your fate; do it without bitterness and stay humble.

When you have a bit of a down period and everything isn't going so well, you stay humble and you just want to prove everybody wrong, and I hope I can do that.

Obviously you have to take it the right way, keep your head down, be humble. But I think if you're in an environment where you're challenging yourself, you're only going to improve. So that's honestly what I tried to do when I went to Europe.

Being humbled has been a part of my life for a long time.

You can't go through what I've been through without being humbled.

You see a lot of people in sports who need to be humbled first to become who they are.

A guy who gets fired and humiliated in the press can lose a lot of confidence.

I know what it's like to be humiliated.

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

I'm trying to make things better, and you have people outside who are constantly trying to make things terrible all the time. Why? Because humiliation sells.

I think some of the funniest and most artistic people I know are the ones who had a hard time at school. They often have humility and artistry. So, as much as I feel bad for kids who have to go through a rough childhood, I believe that if they can turn it around, it's going to make them better people later on.

I think having a sense of humor is just as important a coping mechanism as it is a gift for everyday life.

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating.

In our most desperate times, people going through true hardships use humor to cope.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

I think everyone is born with humor, but your life can beat it out of you, sadly, or you can be lucky enough to grow up in it.

I try to cope with everything through humor.

I've had a very laughable career and what has seen me through is my sense of humor.

People process pain differently. My family, we were pretty humorous about things that went on.

There's only so many ways you can cope with being in dire means, and one way is humour.

I have a robust sense of humour which helps me deal with problems.