Quotes About Adversity

I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.

People do the most remarkable things in the most difficult of circumstances.

In many ways, Prince Philip was remarkably good-humored and long-suffering.

Straight after the Prescott fight, people were saying, 'He's finished. He's not going to come back.' There were only racial remarks made. But, you know what, it made me stronger. It made me come back even stronger. It made me a better fighter.

I've had my fair share of incidents with law enforcement, whether they're saying smart remarks, condescending remarks to downplay who I am and what I can afford... It's something that made me stronger on the back end of it, and learned from those instances.

I remember when I was 19, it was pretty tough.

I remember when I was at St Mirren someone called me the ugliest thing they had seen at Tynecastle, and two minutes later I scored - it was brilliant. I just laugh it off - I agree with them most of the time!

I concentrated on politics and movies because cricket was taken away from me. But the world knows Sreesanth as a cricketer, and I, too, like to be remembered as a cricketer who gave everything on the field.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

I've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures.

Every time something is going good, going great, there's always something that happens to remind you of reality.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

I try not to read the negative comments, and when I do, I let it roll off my back. I remind myself that there will always be haters as long as you are in the public eye.

Scars remind you of difficult places in your life that you've championed.

For a divided, balkanized America, it might take the looming-up of a rival power, the rise of a dark but all-too-plausible alternative, to remind us of who we are, and what we do not want to be.

I hope people remind me of my accident every day of my life. Because that means I'm a prime example of somebody who had it and lost everything and may not have gotten it back in the same capacity but still reinvented myself.

As a comedian you have to remind yourself that it happens; every now and again you can just have a bad gig where things go beyond your control.

You're going through the horror of it, you're going through the isolation of it but you're being empowered by reminding yourself that you're connected to everybody else.

I spend time reminding myself of all the many blessings in my life. It's not hard for me to re-focus positively. I also acknowledge the difficult times in my life and how, with courage, I have moved through them.

I had no idea that what I thought was my low wasn't really my low. That's what a lot of people think - then life reminds them, 'No, there's lower.'

It always gets you going when you get hit for the first time. It reminds you that you play football.

History reminds us, however, that good doesn't always prevail. Not against Russia anyway.

I've lost two jobs, at Newcastle and Norwich, but that's the nature of the game these days. It doesn't remove winning the Championship with Newcastle from my record, nor finishing 11th in my first season at Norwich after we went on an incredible run before Christmas.

India has always come out of crises renewed and on a higher growth path.