Quotes About Adversity

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.

God, it's such an unforgiving sport.

Everybody had a bad day. It's possible to have two bad days in a row. And in this sport, it's so unforgiving.

International rugby is an unforgiving arena.

As I was born to be unfortunate, my sun soon clouded.

I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

The unfortunate part about trial by fire in fighting is that people punch you in the face.

A startup is literally just a series of unfortunate events where you failed, failed, failed, and failed until you succeed.

No matter how well I have taken care of my body, I have been injured a few times, which is very unfortunate and which is very disappointing. But each time, I have come back, I have come back stronger, and I have come back hungrier.

A lot of people work extremely hard and through no fault of their own - bad luck, the wrong environment, unfortunate circumstances - struggle to survive.

Every person goes through a bad phase. Amitabh Bachchan and Salman Khan, too, had a rough phase in their careers. In my case, it was unfortunate that my personal problems came up at a time when I took a break to rejuvenate myself.

There's no greater way to gain an audience's sympathy than by being unfortunate.

A lot of bands have an unfortunate past; we've dodged a lot of bullets when it comes to that.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

Bullying has been around forever, and so it became one of these issues that as an adult we look back on and say, 'Yeah, it's just one of those unfortunate parts of growing up.' You know you're not going to stop it, so it just became easier to call it one of those things that 'just happens.'

I moved to Humble under really unfortunate circumstances obviously, Hurricane Katrina, so our family was displaced here for four months. Humble was a home for us.

I was unfortunate at Tottenham.

It really comes down to the fact that, because I was perceived as a bad guy for leaving the show, I think people were rooting against the movies. That was really unfortunate.

I do not have a family, per se. When I was younger, I grew up in foster care with my brother and sister. It was really a struggle, and knowing that there were people out there with tight-knit families really made my childhood an unfortunate one.

People are divided into two classes - those who profit by experience and those who do not. The unfortunate part of it all is that the latter class is by far the larger of the two.

It is unfortunate I haven't been able to get the game time I wanted at West Brom but I need to stay focused, progress, and try not to think about it too much.

When I got released in 2013, I just felt that was an unfortunate situation for me.

I've had moments when I've had to bounce back. It's unfortunate, but you just don't have time to kind of sit there and stew on things. You have to flush them out, move on.