Quotes About Adversity

It's - everybody's looking at the bottom line all the time, and failure doesn't look good on the bottom line, and yet you don't learn anything without failing.

One time I nearly experienced failure was when I was acting in 'Hum Aapke Hain Kaun' in 1994. One day, I woke up and found that part of my face was paralysed.

I think one thing as far as my learning curve and what I'm learning - there is a time to take a sack, and then there is also a time to try to find a way to maybe throw the ball at a receiver's feet.

I was perceived to be a first- to third-rounder. I kind of had a tough junior year and fell to the fifth round. At that time, it was motivational.

My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.

When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential, ' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Not a problem kid or anything like that so when you're in the legal system like that, it's always hard on a person for the first time to go through some things like that.

My dad was a truck driver, and from the time I was knee high to a grapevine, I was driving a truck.

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

We can always stick together when we are losing, but tend to find means of breaking up when we're winning. In Grace under Pressure, by Hastie, 1984.

Sometimes God allows storms to come together in such a way that they ultimately fulfill something that would never have happened otherwise.

The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses will be all the stronger for working together and sharing the load.

God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port

Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.

It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.

sometimes we need all the glue we can get, just to hold ourselves together.

It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.

Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.

To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

Events are like horses. Sometimes they run away. After they've run for a while, though, they'll start to walk again. Then there'll be a time to put everything together.

If my mama and daddy would've stayed together, one of them would've been dead, and the other would have been locked up for it.

In difficult circumstances, teams either separate or come closer together, it's as simple as that