Quotes About Adversity

I don't want to paint a picture of total gloom and doom.

Life is awesome as a college athlete, and then it's a total cliff to jump off.

One of the best things that ever happened to me was Rocky Horror being a total flop in New York as a play. I mean, it was a disaster, and it was the night of the long knives as far as the critics were concerned.

We opened the first Men's Wearhouse in Houston in August 1973, then a store a year for 10 years in Texas. In the early 1980s I opened a store in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within the year, the Texas economy was in total disarray. We were facing Chapter 11, and if not for the California store, we might not have survived.

Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.

When 'Totally Biased' was canceled, I thought my career was over - but apparently it wasn't.

If I'd had a magic ejector seat when I went to Zaire, which is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, I would have pressed it multiple times. I felt totally out of my depth. I had no money and there was precious little infrastructure so I had to barter to survive.

Dumped? Fired? Scorned? Humiliated? Totally pissed off? If so, I've got great news! You might be on your way to living your best life ever - if you consciously choose to channel this pain into fuel - and use it to motivate yourself to become your highest potential self!

Yes, our genes, upbringing, and difficulties affect us, but I do not believe they determine us.

People who lack the native physical, social, or mental gifts they desire must fight just that much harder. And that uphill battle can produce qualities and strengths they couldn't develop any other way. That is how a weakness can become a strength.

These problems are real, and you can't turn off real life. So I won't try. Instead, I'll give you a set of tools to help you deal with real life.

This would be really funny if it weren't happening to me.

If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination.

There will be challenges." "So? Do what I do: shoot them.

They just had to eat it,

The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

But sometimes, no matter how hard you try, things just don't work out," Jules said. "You're not always in control of everything, no matter how much you want to be.

This is the beauty of imagination. An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.

Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.

Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything.

New York City on June 6, 1884. He had nothing but a few cents in his pocket, a few poems, calculations for a