Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes, a nice smile can make up for anything, like when you can't get into an outfit comfortably.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

I don't smile much, and I never laugh. If you'd been through what I've been through, you wouldn't be smiling, either.

I reason that as long as I'm smiling 90 percent of the time, I can handle the setbacks that occur 10 percent of the time.

The highs in my career have been overcoming the problems and smiling at them and getting on.

If I make a bogey I'm not going to be smiling walking off the hole and high-fiving people, but I'm going to be like, 'Okay, we need to make some birdies to get back in it.'

I am the kind of guy who you'll always see smiling. My childhood was like this. I had a lot of fun. We had a bad environment, but we also learned how to cope with it.

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.

My name ain't Liam Smith, my name ain't Rocky Fielding, my name ain't Amir Khan, James Kirkland - it's Demetrius Andrade and it ain't no easy walk in the park.

When the smoke clears and the money and opportunities lessen, so do the people around you who you think might have your best interests in mind.

You have to take the rough with the smooth - that's what ski-jumping is all about. You always expect the worst.

When you play this game long enough, everything is not going to be smooth sailing.

It is so important to have the cushioning of humour in one's life for a smooth run.

And I knew that, being an actor, you have to take the rough with the smooth and the highs with the lows. That's how it is.

Acting has not been a smooth sailing journey.

Things don't always go smoothly.

If someone has reached a certain level, it is always expected that he becomes better and better, but there are also phases in which it does not run so smoothly - and that's human.

The first couple of years of my career were going fantastic, everything running smoothly. I was the next best thing. Obviously there were problems that were out of my hands, changing promoters and all different things behind the scenes that people don't see.

If I didn't have a great right hook, the bigger, heavier fighters would grind me down and smother me.

Everybody has ways in which they've been lucky in life, and everybody also has ways in which they've definitely rolled snake eyes.

I've been through some adversity where I didn't have football. Having it back gives you an appreciation for every snap you can take. I'm just blessed to have that opportunity.

In 2005, when I felt my Achilles snap, I knew instantly that it wasn't just my anatomy that had changed, but my life as well.

I turned up for my first day training with England Under-19s super excited, and I just happened to bang my knee on the floor, and it just blew up. It turned out that I'd completely snapped it in half.