Quotes About Adversity

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.

All my life I've felt weak compared to other people. If they want to crush me then they can. But I know I can do things that other people can't.

I realized, there are people out there who can beat me, want to beat me. And unless I continue to innovate and evolve, I am going to learn a painful lesson from someone who has.

Your life can be what you want it to be... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.

People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

Boys want to grow up to be like their male role models. And boys who grow up in homes with absent fathers search the hardest to figure out what it means to be male.

When you find the right people, you never let go. The people who count are the ones who are your friends in lean times. You have all the friends you want when things are going well.

Anyone ever lost in the wild knows that nature wants you dead.

Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.

If you have a strong belief in yourself, in what you are doing and what you want to do, no adversity is too difficult to overcome.

People always want to knock you when you're up.

One cannot live on potatoes alone. It is said that one wants bread with potatoes. And when there's no bread, a Jew takes his stick, and goes through the village in search of business.

You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

It's alright to do things the way you want. There is no map to life, no blueprints to survival, you can create your world day by day if you have a clear vision and an unwillingness to give up.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while.

Everything that an artist does is a risk. Some people want you to stay the same. If you want to evolve, they want to keep you in a certain place.

Instead of failure being the outcome, failure became not trying. And it forced me at a young age to want to push myself so much further out of my comfort zone.

I don't know what the future may hold for me-or for any of us. But I want you to know that I am a man who likes having critics who are not enemies.