Quotes About Adversity

Every day, in every single walk of life, you can do something good, and people will have something bad to say about you. You just get on with it and do your job as best you can.

Whenever something good happens to me, it's usually followed by something terrible.

There's always something good to come out of disappointment: Comfort.

Sugarland was a band we started to try to make things better. It was in the aftermath of 9-11; it was in the aftermath of my mother dying... there was a lot of weird stuff that had gone on that made you want to start something good.

With a lot of young entrepreneurs, it always start rotten, but then something good happens - but do you keep it good?

I believe whenever you're trying something new, it's always going to get some kind of bad reception.

People ask me often, 'Why did you leave Green Bay? You had the best quarterback, you were going good and all that.' But I've always been one for challenges. Try to build something up, try something new, challenge myself.

I wanted to do something new and different. People expected me to do negative roles. I wanted to break the norm, and because of that, I lost on some great work as well.

For me, God is someone who takes care of me and creates good and bad phases in my life so that i can learn from them. This is why even when I am going through a lean phase, I don't get fazed, for I believe that's God's way of teaching me something new.

Whenever I go into a crisis situation I turn myself towards self improvement. I learn something new, pick up a course. Travel somewhere and do something there for a few months... It's important to do positive things in that phase.

I don't live my life based on fear of failure. I live my life with an understanding of failure and I'm embracing it, because every time I fail, I learn something new.

I think I could do good against some of the top welterweights. Yeah, pretty big guys, but you gotta live some times, you gotta step up sometime, huh?

Unfortunately, soccer can be cruel sometime.

Sometimes you need to get hit in the head to realize that you're in a fight.

We are all products of our experiences, good and bad. Sometimes you learn as much from the negative experiences as you do from the positive.

Sometimes you just gotta be drop-kicked out of the nest.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Sometimes when you're overwhelmed by a situation - when you're in the darkest of darkness - that's when your priorities are reordered.

Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the 'hood.

I have only one eye, I have a right to be blind sometimes... I really do not see the signal!

I think you sometimes have to go hit rock bottom before you can grow and rebuild as a person.

Sometimes you have to accept that a guy played better on the day than you.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.

Desperation sometimes drives innovation.