Quotes About Adversity

It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.

My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things.

When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

But I've never once thought that I wouldn't get back, as if you do think like that, then you're in trouble.

I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.

Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.

Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.

I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.

I've been in a lot of trouble and come out of it. I think it shows a lot of good character.

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

Man, I was a troubled kid. I was going to get kicked out of a Christian school and got sent to military school for a year and a half, and I didn't really have much direction until I got the opportunity to drive race cars.

In trouble to be troubled, Is to have your trouble doubled.

The funniest people I know were, not necessarily troubled, but had a harder time in school or were shy or picked on or something like that. I think that you rely on it. 'Well, I don't think I'm cute and no one wants to hang out with me - I'd better start trying to make people laugh.' I think there's an element of that in there.

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

My family in general - they're troubled or poorer people.

Many today feel troubled and distressed; many feel that, at any moment, the ships of their lives could capsize or sink.

I grew up in a bookless house with a father and brother who have spent most of their lives in prison, psychiatric hospitals, or living rough, and a mother who has spent her life slaving and scrimping to pay the bills, living a nervous and troubled life.

I've had a pretty chequered past, you know, as a kid, as a troubled kid.

I had a troubled childhood, a troubled adulthood but now I am totally healed. I am lucky that there are people around me to support.

My parents actively tried to discourage me from going into music - especially Dad, because of the troubled times he had in his youth.