Quotes About Adversity

The people you can't stand can actually transform your life. And help you become happier, healthier, and more successful.

It is very important to transform every disadvantage into an advantage.

When I reflect on the losses I've experienced, I've come to believe that those experiences were transformative, that they shaped who I am.

I remember in my second year in the league, I dropped 17 balls and led the NFL in dropped passes. That made me the player I am. If I didn't go through that transformative power of crisis, none of this would've probably happened for me.

Comedy comes from a place of hurt. Charlie Chaplin was starving and broke in London, and that's where he got his character 'the tramp' from. It's a bad situation that he transformed into comedic one.

I've been so transient, I've been on my own since I was 16. I didn't even have my own place until I was 32 years old. I literally lived out of bags for 16-plus years.

The transition was difficult. It's hard to stop something that you've enjoyed and that has been very rewarding.

There's a little bit of pain in every transition, but we can't let that stop us from making it. If we did, we'd never make any progress at all.

I was told I shouldn't transition, and if I did, I'd never work again. That really bothered me.

I grew up at a park, and everybody was always for themselves. I was the smallest, so I had to find a way to get my own rebounds, and it always translated throughout my whole career.

When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.

I'll tell you exactly what my daughter told me: "I realized I'm more brave than I am afraid.

There's three type of men you got to avoid at any cost—the police, the army recruiters, the hustlers. They all want your life and that's all you got.

Only a complete asshole would keep repeating the same old mistakes and blaming it on something else. Hell, we have all had it hard. It may not seem like it

The liabilities were easy: He was locked in a trunk, bound and gagged; he had a nuclear bomb for a head rest, and there was a dead body lying beside him. The assets were a little more difficult. And then it hit him. If nothing occurred without God's approval, and he left nothing to chance, then everything that happened to him was part of God's larger plan. He thought about it. If all that were true, and God loved His creation, then . . . his liabilities were also his assets.

She wonders what else she will have to give up and what is the minimum of things with which one can survive without losing the feeling that one is human?

Svatko je dužan napraviti najbolje što može od onoga što ga je zapalo, jer smisao života je upravo življenje samo. Postojati, usprkos svemu. Osje?ati, gledati, sudjelovati. Veseliti se. Nije na dana druga šansa, drugi život.

He was our commander not because someone appointed him but because we picked him to be our commander. He was a brave man, tall, six feet eight perhaps, and strong. He wasn't afraid of anything. We looked up to him, all of us. And when I saw him lying there, without legs, crippled and totally helpless … I felt terrible. - Did it perhaps occur to you to quit at that moment? - No, it didn't, once you're inside you cant get out, you cant quit

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That song is a story that shows how easily you could get slipped into being labeled as the bad guy, even though what you really trying to do is tell the bad guy to leave you alone.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

You know what, I'm going to say this and I mean it, if all else fails and I've got to shake, rattle 'n' roll and get on the woo-wop, this is going to be my heeyah zone.

Det tridje kann eg, um turvast kann mot fiendar rame råder: eggjar eg døyver for uvener mine, so det bit korkje våpen eller velur.

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.