Quotes About Adversity

Even in the depths of dreadful situations, there's usually something rather comic, or something you can laugh about afterwards, at least. So, I do look for the comedy in those things.

I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

Living on the Gulf Coast, we often have to go through dangerous situations, whether you're a child, an adult or a senior citizen.

A black man - I say a black man, we got no corner on the market, but every day in some form or fashion you got to prove you're a man. But you want to keep the life-and-death situations down. I can get beat. But there's getting beat and there's getting stomped.

I didn't come from the worst of situations, and I didn't come into the best of situations. But I've appreciated the best situations. And I've made the best of the worst situations. I'm lucky to be where I am.

I get through difficult situations by looking at how other people have gone through them. I say to myself, 'If they can go through it, then I can.' Or, If they can go through worse, I can go through whatever I'm going through.

I like situations that push a character to the edge.

As people, we're generally optimistic, no matter how disabled our lives are, and we find the humor in the darkest situations.

People are capable of incredible gallantry and terrible cruelty in situations of extreme duress. I tried to showcase that range in 'Enclave.'

As one who has been in hard situations, I believe that I know how to deal with complicated and hard situations.

When I was three, I didn't play with other kids very much; I was kind of isolated. I got used to be being bullied and having to think my way out of situations in the same way that other kids would fight their way out. Then I discovered a piano, and it became my playmate.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

I am more mature now and know how to deal with certain situations in football. It's not all about highs; there are also lows, but I can deal with it. Football is a hard business.

I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.

There's plenty of situations where we'll come up with guys on base, less than two outs, and those are opportunities for us to help ourselves out.

What inspires me is the relationships and situations I find myself in as I grow and learn.

I like to be with my back against the wall in dangerous situations.

My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.

When I say 'fighter,' I am thinking about how you deal with adversity, how you deal with being in bad situations.

I probably only cried five or six times in my life and I think four of those times was from my daddy kicking my butt.

I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.

I used to come home crying at the beginning, 'cause I was playing against high-school guys, college guys, and I was like in the sixth grade, so it was tough.

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.