Quotes About Adversity

Doing 'Malcolm and Eddie' was probably the foremost miserable years of my life.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

Misery is a match that never goes out.

It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. The one who says nothing good comes of this is not yet listening.

Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of the earth is multiform.

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.

Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face.

We learn by misfortune.

I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

Ignorance of one's misfortunes is clear gain.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.

When you take a year off from football, you come back for all the enjoyable moments. When you're not playing, you miss out on all the highs, but you also miss these disappointments. But I would rather be in the arena to be excited or be disappointed than not have a chance at all. That's football. That's why everybody plays it.

I think everybody at IBM knows the early 1990s disaster, and it's in our fabric that you cannot miss the ship.

I missed a whole cycle of childhood, but I've never used it as a device for self-pity.

I've missed a lot of football.

If I missed a game, that meant I was losing the battle. I'm not going to let leukemia affect me.

I missed a lot of school. I was always sick. I was in the hospital a lot. Asthma kicked my butt.

As a lad I missed five months of sporting activity to OSD. It used to wake me up at night with pain in my knees.

I was lucky. I missed the struggle. I don't feel I have to pay anyone back for the miserable years. I never had them.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.