Quotes About Adversity

When you want something desperately and you lose it, no matter how hard you try to get yourself motivated, it's always difficult.

When you lose, it motivates you to go again.

I'm not saying I like to be kicked, but it's good for me to feel I am in the game. Definitely. A motivation.

When you get kicked, you must know that the response is to play better. That is the way I have always thought. That is an extra motivation for me to play better.

My motivation comes from the plays I didn't make.

All of my career, I have been - how can I say this? - I have been through certain difficulties, and I have always tried to make it motivation to get better and better.

In adversity, you have to find motivation to continue and do well.

You can't cry yourself to sleep every night because people from a distance hate you. So you gotta do with it what you can, and if that means using it as motivation, then that's what you do.

I always used the media - if people were having a go I could use it as motivation to prove them wrong.

I guess sometimes fear is a good thing. It's a really good motivator.

That year, the year after being in Motley Crue, was very difficult. But I learned, and I coped with it. And life is good still.

I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'

I've had motorcycle accidents!

I have crashed on a motorcycle that was going at 140mph, so I know what it feels like.

My father lost a lung in a chemical accident at General Motors, and after a while, he got a settlement that sort of changed all of our lives and moved us from, what we say, 'ashy to classy' in some aspects.

La competencia ha sido y será siempre problemática para aquellos que tienen que competir. FRÉDÉRIC BASTIAT

So all were gone at last, one by one, each swept out into the mighty flood tide of the city's life, there to prove, to test, to find, to lose himself, as each man must--alone.

To hell with them all. Don't let them worry you. Get all that you can. Don't give a damn for anything. Nothing gives a damn for you. To hell with it all! To hell with it! There are a lot of bad days. There are a lot of good ones. You'll forget. There are a lot of days.

The people made their recollections fit in with their sufferings

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

You hit a bad shot, you have to get over it right there and then so you can get focused on the next one

She kept too much in herself. Her life was such that she had to keep too much in herself. My wisdom came too late. She is a child of her age, of depression, of war, of fear. Let her be. So, all that is in her will not bloom, but in how many does it? There is still enough left to live by. Only help her to know, help make it so there is cause for her to know that she is more than this dress on the ironing board, helpless before the iron.

It has never yet been a world right for love, for those we love, for ourselves, for flowered human life.

Don't let your history become your destiny.