Quotes About Adversity

Always people have counted me out since I got in the league. It never made me any difference. I kept myself around positive people, got a great support system and just kept at it.

Even in a bad situation, there's always a positive side. Even if you can't see it yet.

Make a game of finding something positive in every situation. Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself.

I've always tried to be positive. There's a lot going on.

You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.

I'm trying to take a positive out the disappointment, but I'm also trying to do what's best for my career as well.

Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.

Perhaps trying to move away from my problems and focus on the positive is the best I can do.

If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Courage isn't the absence of fear; it's the dealing with it.

When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn

It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.

No matter how much you might feed off negativity, a positive message is always stronger.

Disaster is around the corner. It is, it's lurking, it's incredibly negative. Am I thinking about the bad times ahead? Jesus, no. I've got to remain positive, I'm going to fight this negativity!

Each problem has a positive side.

If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.

Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.

When the going got tough, I really had to draw on many of the same competitive instincts I did when I was skating. I really had to put my head down and stay positive. I had to fight.

Everything bad that's ever happened in my life I've seen an outcome that's positive later on.

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.

The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy.

You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.

You know criticism when you get into this business. You accept the bad with the good, the tabloids and the positive side of it.

We were over-whelming underdogs.