Quotes About Adversity

It means so much to me that my family went against our tradition for me.

When you're suddenly pregnant and no one is standing by your side, even if you're in your 30s, it's a hard conversation. I'm a traditional girl, and I believe in marriage, and I just always thought that's the way I'd be doing this.

Not a lot of people take advantage of that opportunity of being different. A lot of kids that are highly touted coming out of high school, like, doing the traditional thing and going to the blue bloods and all that, but I was always different growing up.

I was never the big leaper, the dunker, the long and athletic kid who looked the part of a traditional basketball star. Truth be told, I wasn't even considered a top guard coming out of my recruiting class.

Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.

I've been physically assaulted several times in the street. Somebody once pushed me into traffic. I've been followed into gay clubs, for example, where alt-right blogs would send photographers to take pictures of me. That has been not necessarily the easiest to deal with but, again, you start to actually just get used to it.

I've experienced great things, I've experienced great tragedies. I've done almost everything I could possibly ever imagine doing, but I just know that there's more.

I came from a blue-collar family where we busted each other's chops and found the funny in tragedies.

The world helps you to keep evolving and hope it's for better. You have to rise above all the tragedies in life. You have to grow, and if you stop growing, you are old.

Everybody has terrible things that they deal with. Everybody. Just because you're some big shot rock star doesn't mean you're immune to having these awful tragedies in your life.

I'm not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare's stories are tragedies - right?

We salvage the bones of our lives every day, through small tragedies and big tragedies.

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.

I haven't had too many tragedies in my family where there has been a loss or even an accident. I've been lucky in that sense.

You know, most of my friends are either dead or in jail. There were a lot of tragedies.

I've had a lot of big impacts before the music as far as deaths and tragedies and experiences in my life.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.

I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

The key element in tragedy is that heroes and heroines are destroyed by that which appears to be their greatest strength.