Quotes About Adversity

In everybody's life, there is love, there is sorrow, there is melancholy. And there might be danger as well.

Humor reminds you, when you're flattened by sorrow, that you're still human.

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.

You don't get there the easy way. If you feel sorry for yourself, and you let yourself go down, you will drown.

I'm sorry to say cancer can kill you, but it doesn't make you a better person.

I have two choices: Sit at home and feel sorry for myself, or make lemonade out of lemons.

I think it was the down point in my career. I went to Shrewsbury on loan, I came back within a month and hadn't played a game - injured and feeling sorry for myself really.

Many of life's problems and sorrows are inevitable, but feeling sorry for yourself is a choice.

I never gave up, but a lot of the homies did, and I don't feel sorry for them.

The thing about the NFL is nobody cares. Nobody feels bad for you. Nobody feels sorry for you... They don't care if you're hurt. They don't care if you don't feel good. You have a bad call. Play goes against you? No one cares. You've got to play. You've got to win.

I still spend my time feeling sorry for myself and making serious mistakes.

It's been said of me that I must get out of bed every morning and go cartwheeling down the road. Of course it's not true. There certainly was a time in my 20s when I wanted a bit of freedom, and I found that difficult, but if I'm ever having a time when I'm feeling sorry for myself, something always jolts me back.

You can either feel sorry for yourself and lay down and cry, or you can actually learn from it and move on and find all the positives in it.

I'm the manager of Cardiff City Football Club, and I'm not to lay down and feel sorry for myself.

Many feel sorry for a person like David Platt. He was abandoned by his father, his mother wanted to abort him and his stepdad wanted him dead.

I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.

Some people feel sorry for me, and I understand that. I really feel lucky though.

If you want to work as a head coach and to lead a group of people there is no option to feel sorry for yourself or to complain about fate conspiring against you.

You've got to move forward. You can't feel sorry for yourself.

I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn't have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.

You have to not listen to the nay sayers because there will be many and often they'll be much more qualified than you and cause you to sort of doubt yourself.

I honestly think part of the appeal of 'Rumours' was that it was sort of heroic. We managed to push through in the face of so much personal adversity.

There's one major difference between James Bond and me. He is able to sort out problems!

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.