Quotes About Adversity

Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.

You look back and reflect and there are things you could do better - even when there's been an 'experience that was unjust.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell.

When I joined films in 2002, there were all kinds of rash and unkind comments that were made about my looks in the reviews.

In this journey, the fear creeps in from time to time. The hint of that is there because there's an unknown factor to everything. That's true in everyone's life. I don't choose to live there; I let it spark me.

As a professional track cyclist, I have always challenged myself, and I enjoy seeing how I cope when faced with the unknown.

Not too many people have my story. And this is my story: A guy goes from unknown to a Heisman Trophy finalist. He gets kicked out of school. He absolutely rebounds himself. He becomes a millionaire. He's taking care of his family. And then he's getting injured.

Every player goes through streaks where they're just not making their shots. It may last two games, it may last ten games, and a lot of times, it's something off the court that is bothering you, or coach might cut your minutes for some unknown reason.

I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.

When we were unknown, you don't get a lot of bad feedback. Now, we get people bad-mouthing us all the time, but it's all part of the game.

It's about not letting the internal enemy, the real enemy, have his way because the more he does the stronger he becomes. The film's about the devastating results that can manifest from the internal enemy being unbridled and allowed to unleash chaos.

The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever situation it is, just grow from it, learn from it, don't let it happen again.

The way that I've been raised and the things I've had to do has given me grit that is unmatchable unless you were beside me.

I do believe in living out your own time, unless it's absolutely impossible, which it is for some people.

Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.

Sometimes, you don't see what you've got to change unless something happens, like a loss.

Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.

It's in the act of having to do things that you don't want to that you learn something about moving past the self. Past the ego.

I don't seem to meet very many men I find attractive. And usually when I meet them and develop crushes on them they are usually straight. So I end up having more relationships with women.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.