Quotes About Adversity

A lot of people, when they are expected to do great things they fold, but you have got to find a way to navigate it.

Football is not always easy; you need to navigate through some adversity.

Some days I'm in better control and can navigate my way through stuff, and other days, not so much.

I had to do so much self-searching and self-work and learning how to navigate in a world that seemed very mean.

I'm interested in stories that help me, people navigate in this broken world.

There's a lot of racism when I was in the Navy, and I had to deal with that.

I know from my experience as a Navy SEAL that barriers work.

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

I've had malaria damn near eight times.

During the Great Depression, levels of crime actually dropped. During the 1920s, when life was free and easy, so was crime. During the 1930s, when the entire American economy fell into a government-owned alligator moat, crime was nearly non-existent. During the 1950s and 1960s, when the economy was excellent, crime rose again.

I had several near death experiences or very, you know, close calls, if you may, in Iraq. You know, there was an incident where I was nearly kidnapped.

I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

I was a very, very old child. Sometimes you meet a child who seems more like an adult. I think I was that type of child because I had a nearly fatal kidney disease when I was 9 years old.

At my lowest point, I was nearly $700,000 in debt.

If a company is not doing well, it doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a good company.

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.

I didn't realize it until I was grown how necessary it is for good people to be tough.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Racetracks are designed to make it as difficult as possible to get around that corner fast. And some ramps, by necessity, are that way, too.

The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.

I broke my jaw jumping, and I broke my back and my neck in the downhill. This is normal for me.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.