Quotes About Adversity

Nobody really wants to hear about anybody else's injuries. Or how your back feels. Whose back doesn't hurt?

?W?e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ?difficult ?for people to persist through that.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

People want to see the car crash instead of the race. But, when you're the one in the car that's crashing, it's not much fun. I'm enjoying the race.

Because a fellow has failed once or twice or a dozen times, you don't want to set him down as a failure till he's dead or loses his courage.

When you're part of the opposition you want to stay. It's part of your identity. You're useless if you leave. You feel like you have failed.

Sometimes, it's not getting what we want that offers us the most important Lessons

Everybody wants to play in the playoffs. You don't know how good the good times were until you hit the bad times. But sometimes success is just around the corner.

People who don't want to weather some of the rough periods miss out on something better.

Forget the haters! They just want the crown!

I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.

You need bad things to make good things. It's like with farming— if you want to grow a good crop, you need a lot of manure.

Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don't want to go.

The greater part of humanity is too much harassed and fatigued by the struggle with want, to rally itself for a new and sterner struggle with error.

Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

I've made a career of taking roles that other actresses didn't want.

Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.

Some people don't want to rock the boat and risk being cut. They don't want to be seen as a nuisance. They say, "If I'm cut, I won't be able to make a change at all."

When I hit bottom, I can attack the problem and get to where I want to be.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

When people come and tell me I was terrific in this or that, I do not want to fall flat on my face next time. But, tough, I have fallen flat before. You just get up and dust yourself off.

There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.

It's not a query of staying wholesome. It's a query of discovering a illness you want.