Quotes About Adversity

We have all had to deal with cruel remarks from other children, and it has made us stronger as a result. But today every minor slight is analysed to determine whether or not it is racist, sexist, homophobic and so on.

You find most of the interesting stories are the ones that are slightly harder to get made.

I sort of feel like if you're slightly marginalized, you're hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.

I think if a batter's got the better of you naturally in the back of your mind you can go slightly defensive.

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

As an athlete, you'd better laugh at yourself when you slip in the mud.

The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.

There's a lot of big fights potentially out there for me, but none of them are possible if I slip up against N'Dam.

I had a one day slip, Matt. So what do you do? You get up and you go on, and you try not to do it again.

All the other kids in ninth grade were drawing hot rods and cocker spaniels and getting blue ribbons in art class. I was getting rejection slips from the 'Saturday Evening Post.'

Growing up, I had only one good pair of shoes. So on rainy school days, my mom would slip plastic bread bags over them to keep them dry. But I was never embarrassed. Because the school bus would be filled with rows and rows of young Iowans with bread bags slipped over their feet.

You can build your legacy and your legacy can be big, but even after you slip or fall, you learn, and your legacy is getting even bigger.

You don't want to let your form slip because it can be hard to get back from that.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

When my enemies stop hissing, I shall know I'm slipping.

Nothing worse than walking out in a Test match and finding your hand slipping on the handle.

But that's a part of life; you're going through and nothing ever works out how you wanted. Nothing ever completed cleanly the way that you wanted. It is sloppy and messy, and when you think it's over, 'Oh great. We have a bit more to do.' There's always another bit of road ahead, even when you think you've gotten to the end.

Even when 'Kaakha Kaakha' was released, there were people who gave it an average rating and said they couldn't figure out what was happening. Three days after its release, the producer called me and asked me to remove all of Jothika's scenes from the film. I told him; in that case, you can also remove my name from the director's slot.

I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

When you have fast cars and bad luck, it's a lot easier to handle than having slow cars and bad luck.

I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn't going to let this slow me down - and that choice has kept me moving forward.

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.

There are several drugs out right now that can't stop multiple sclerosis, but they can slow it way down. They also made me puff up like a balloon. So I looked horrible. I hated that.

I remember in the first part of the race I was sixth and I could have gone quicker, but I had to go slow. It was one of the most difficult things I have ever done.