Quotes About Adversity

I like challenges, and Darlington is the biggest challenge on the circuit.

Saints can be happy under every circumstance.

I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

It doesn't matter what background you come from; it doesn't matter what your circumstances are - you can survive.

Resilient people recognize that no matter how bad the circumstances are, their situation could always be worse. They don't allow themselves to exaggerate how terrible their problems are, and they don't run around predicting how much worse things are going to get. Instead, they view failure with an accurate perspective.

Many a time a man cannot be such as he would be, if circumstances do not admit of it.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

What I learned for myself... is that no matter what the circumstances, people survive.

It's not that I don't enjoy fighting. I don't enjoy the circumstances around fighting.

When things begin to go negative, sometimes we just have to cover our ears and not let such circumstances influence us.

It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.

I became a citizen after 9/11.

I was born in the middle of Lebanon's civil war.

I keep saying my books don't have superheroes. They have ordinary people in extraordinary situations.

It's not just superheroes that make a story great.

If any man has left us for fear of Nero, I shall not account him a coward; but I shall hail as a philosopher any man who has been superior to this fear, and I shall teach him all I know.

When I was fired from my post as General of the Fighter Arm, I was to give proof that this jet was a superior fighter. And that's when we did it. I think we did it.

My personality is based on an anonymity and failure. Failure and anonymity, those are my strengths - superiority from below.

I don't think of myself as Superman, but if a genie came up to me now and granted me a wish to take my legs back, for sure I would take them - but it would take some time to accept.

If my father Ninoy Aquino were alive today, he would say that he is not superman or superboy. In effect, heroes are really just ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and respond properly.

Every superstar in this league, if you don't go through adversity, if you try to duck and dodge it, it's gonna damper your team.

Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

When you go to prison, you don't feel like a superstar. It really humbles you as a person.