Quotes About Adversity

Well, I did go to Irish dancing lessons as a kid, but I was slapped and never went again.

I started my career with a loss, getting 'slapped' by life.

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

I think after being kicked and slapped on social media a billion times, I had this one time. This lady said I was a deplorable human being, and that hurt.

I fell off a wall in Cockermouth when I was 18. The slate on the top of the wall was loose and I tried to jump up and sit on it. I ended up falling backwards and the tile ended up falling back onto my hand.

There were dragons to slay in the old days. Nixon was a good dragon.

There can be no dragon slayer in the absence of dragons.

I remember I used to sleep on my records. In a room with no furniture. I remember I used to sleep in my car.

I had it all: congestive heart failure, malignant high blood pressure, kidney damage, enlarged heart, sleep apnea, borderline diabetic, etc.

We ended up all living in a one-bedroom apartment that cost $80 a month and sleeping on the floor. My jacket was my first pillow. We really had nothing at all.

I've lived out in a park sleeping on the grass with no place to go; I've not eaten. I've been there.

I lived for two years with six girls in an apartment that was built for three people, and it had no heat. We would sleep in our coats and in sleeping bags. And it was great.

When I was 16, we get kicked out of our house because my mother and my father were separated, so we didn't have money to pay. We got kicked out and had to live with my grandmother, sleeping in the living room, for many years.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Life has a great deal up its sleeve.

I judge people, and myself, when you are up against it. When you've been beaten like that you have to find out who is alongside you, you roll your sleeves and come out fighting and those are my principles.

I've wined and dined with kings and queens, and I've slept in the alley eating pork and beans.

There were days when my father didn't have money for food, and we slept hoping the next day something could be got from work.

When I was 19 years old, both of my parents died in the same year; my mom of cancer and my dad in a car accident. Through the next two or three years and a series of bad decisions - all my own, I might add - I ended up literally homeless, before that was even a word. I even slept occasionally under a pier on the Gulf Coast.

I slept in closets and on floors for a long time.

The only rule I got is if you slide, get up.

I feel like I haven't done the best in environments that aren't conducive to me doing well, and I have to do that. Because times are going to get tough, and I'm going to have to let things slide off my back.

You see a lot of women who take the negative things that come their way and let it slide off them, like they are coated with Teflon.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.