Quotes About Adversity

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.

When people push back on you and don't think you can do it, and you struggle a little bit and wonder if they're right, it drives you to be successful and to be a great player.

You know, life is about loss and recovering and starting again. It gets a bit more difficult to start again the older you get. But you can do it, you can do it.

There are going to be games where you don't have the greatest conditions, so to show that you can do it in bad conditions is a plus.

I still hold that pen; I still write my own story. So it's going to take a whole lot more than Samoa Joe running me over. And it's going to take more than Randy Orton kicking my face in. It's going to take more than Erick Rowan slamming my head through a table. You guys keep trying to put me down, but I will not stay down.

I was the seventh child in a family of eight siblings. We lost our father very young, and my mother had pretty much single-handedly brought us up.

Whether you are rich or poor, beautiful or ugly, young or old, cancer knows no boundaries.

It was a tough moment for me when I was in Senegal, especially when I was young. I was born in a village, I grew up there, and they don't like football.

I, like many young widows, have very well developed gallows humor.

When I was very young, I had to start to working to help my family, while my friends were studying. Since then, I have felt the urgency to escape from every dependency situation.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution - they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

My left eye went when I was young. I was working the speed bag, and some steel went in the eye and scratched it to pieces. I was kinda blind in that eye.

I tell young guys, you need to build accountability into your life to avoid the pitfalls.

No, my father passed away when I was 13 years old. I was very young.

I always say that life is not easy for anybody. People hear about the young actors who have a rough life, but there are plenty of other kids who aren't actors who have a rough time, too, and I don't know if the ratio is any different.

I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?

When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.

When at a young age you learn to face your fears, that makes the difference between people being champions and people not being champions.