Quotes About Adversity

I am from the West Side of Chicago. I have been looking over my shoulder my whole life. I am not worried about a death threat.

I've been writing lullabies since the beginning. I kind of did it for myself to help myself fall asleep when I really worried, like when I was homeless and I'd fall asleep in my car.

I grew up in communist Russia where we didn't have anything, so I'm not worried that I can't buy an extra pair of shoes.

I started my own business because my parents had no dowry for me, and I was worried. I ran it from their Martha Vineyard's summer house. I baby-sat for a 14-year-old boy all summer and was giving him time-outs, even though I was two years younger than him.

External pressure I never worried about.

There's always going to be haters, but those people are few. We're not too worried about it.

I always have a motto: if it's going in-and-out one night, then the next opponent should be worried.

When I broke my leg in college my first year, they were worried that I wouldn't walk straight again. In fact, I'm pretty pigeon-toed, and most people think I don't walk straight anyway.

When you're a kid, you live carefree. You notice things that go on around you, but you live like a kid with no worries until you get to that certain age where trials and tribulations come and you gotta fight and stay on your toes.

I have worries, but in difficult times, that is when I am quiet.

The way Satan works is he offers you stuff that could look good to the eye and makes you feel comfortable, and if you follow that path all the worries and troubles will go away.

When you don't have any worries, it is better, but things happen in football, and we know we must try to resolve as soon as we can.

Life is difficult for everyone; everyone has bad days. Everyone has trouble in their life, because it doesn't matter how rich you are: Sickness and trouble and worry and love, these things will mess with you at every level of life.

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

I live my life my way. I try to do the right thing, but I know there are going to be people who aren't happy with what I do or say no matter what, so I'm not going to worry about it.

Don't struggle about the struggle. In other words, life's full of ups and downs. So if you're struggling, don't worry, everyone else has or will at some point.

Never give up and don't ask why because every situation does not need an answer. I'm a firm believer that I don't worry about anything I can't control.

To say, 'I don't worry about perception,' you better worry about perception because it's a big part of making it through some very difficult times.

As an artiste, I don't worry about whether I am taking the beaten path or a fresh route when it comes to taking up challenges.

Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.

I have lost everything, and I am so poor now that I really cannot afford to let anything worry me.

When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'

Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path.