Quotes About Adversity

As important as hustle is, grit and resilience are equally as important because there's a lot of rejection in our business.

My message has always been about resilience.

Part of resilience is deciding to make yourself miserable over something that matters, or deciding to make yourself miserable over something that doesn't matter.

Resilience can only form if we face, and learn how to be better equipped to manage, our problems.

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

I like the idea of the comedy of resilience.

In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.

Most of the characters in 'The Little Rascals' were living in poverty, but they decided to focus on the joy of being a kid: the humor, the heart, the resilience.

Resilience is one of the most important aspects in this business and exploration period.

Playing in non-League gave me the resilience. I learned everything there. You needed to fight off hard tackles and I was playing against big men. You learn how to be strong and take them on and learn resilience.

You can't shut somebody up by losing.

If I had to say something to Americans, being afraid and having fear, it's okay to be fearful because that will make you strong; being afraid will shut you down.

You try to shut the criticism out, but it's pretty hard to do. You see people on the street, friends, people that you know are in your corner, and they come and tell you how bad they feel, and that's not the kind of conversation you want. I don't want anyone to feel bad for me.

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

If the door is nailed shut, and you're 'Leaning In,' you're just going to get bruised and battered.

By logic, it's a handicap. If I shut one eye, I can't see from the other eye. But it is one of those things which I don't think too much about. One needs to have the strength to move forward.

My father had a garments business in Delhi which shut down.

I had a good three or four months of mad depression where I thought, I'm not doing this any more, it's brought me nothing but problems, I can't take it. My own label didn't want to touch me. A lot of people just shut doors.

The defenders make me very angry. They are kicking, or they are pinching or they say things to me that I don't like. They try to do everything to take me out of the game. I learned to keep my mouth shut, to keep my hands down, just try to put the ball in the net. This is the best answer.

At What Cost' means so many things: go-gos were shut down for our good, but at what cost?

Long Way Round' was the first time Ewan and I had done anything like that. We went through Mongolia and Siberia and places like that, so it was very tough.

I was 20 when I was sentenced to death. My life had been on a one-way path to self-destruction for years. I don't remember too much about my early life, but I think I had a happy childhood, growing up in Philadelphia in a loving family with five siblings.

Reality is I'm sick all the time.