Quotes About Adversity

I don't think there is anything unusual about my struggle. It's a very typical struggle where you meet bad people, and then you meet good people, and then you finally have a breakthrough.

In 35 years of being in the media, I've had all this mud flung at me many, many times. It's not the first time. It's nothing unusual. I've been through it all before and the best way to deal with it is not to read them.

I'm at the point now where I know I'm doing something right when a movie gets mixed reviews, because then I'm not in the box. I don't want to make it too easy for people and I don't want to make it too easy for myself. I want to try something unusual.

I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'

My family was actually homeless for several years when I was a kid. It's a bit unusual for a member of Congress.

Any journey of a creative person has, you know, really unusual challenges and years where you don't work and years where you work.

It's very unusual for me to take a punch.

I guess growing up, it was pretty much a normal life, as I got older I used to get into some fights but nothing unusual.

It's unusual for me to be in front of an audience without somebody trying to knock my teeth out.

Ninety per cent of the times, filming is a cakewalk. You start it, shoot it and release it without any major hassles. Then comes along one film that gets stuck or faces unusual problems.

I try not to get affected by criticism as it is unwanted and I can't control it.

Cancer is an unwanted travel companion, but I can't help it.

No poem in the world could do my mom justice. Despite circumstance and adversity, she had an unwavering love for her kids and a faith-based, boundless capacity for forgiveness.

I was unwelcome in the U.S. for four years.

Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I'm being funny, but I'm reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we're going down the tube.

No matter what job or industry you're in, life is hard, but we're all going through a difficult time and the best thing we can do is pick each other up and move on together.

Everyone goes down a road that they're not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top - try to go to the top.

They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep - they will shoot up again!

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.

If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

There are going to be good times and bad times, but lighten up.

Remember, you can always stoop and pick up nothing.

Dont give up. Obstacles can be overcome through strategy and learning.