Quotes About Adversity

The harshness of my upbringing did not affect me in the negative. But it has affected many people in the negative.

In my own upbringing, my family lacked the ability to provide a stable, nurturing environment.

I had a very difficult upbringing.

Apart from having heart surgery as a baby, I had a pretty normal upbringing. I attended mainstream school and did gymnastics and dancing.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.

Don't let your upbringing, your surroundings, whatever situation you are living in, don't let those stop you from being the greatest you that you can be.

I worry about my children, actually. I'm trying to give them a decent upbringing but I sometimes worry that that means they're going to be kind of mediocre adults. Like maybe I should throw them out for a bit and give them some adversity.

I always knew that my identity wasn't in football. It wasn't in baseball. I knew it's always been in Christ and just my upbringing has always led me to have a tremendous faith that God was going to see me through and he would not give me too much that I couldn't bear.

If you had met me as a kid you would have never predicted me to be a success. I had a pretty ropey upbringing and you might have thought I'd have gone the other way.

I've had the hardest upbringing of any fighter in England.

I had a rough upbringing. Group homes. Foster homes.

It's not how you start, even with a rough upbringing. It's what you make of it after.

I had a very rough upbringing.

It was definitely a challenging upbringing. My parents were by no means perfect.

Our success just flies in the face of critics or people who would rather that we just failed... because we didn't fit into the style of the times or our lyrics were too upfront or too earnest or whatever.

Growing up, I had a face that people wanted to tell things to, and I grew up with adults who had so much to say. They had lived through decades of unbelievable poverty, starvation, political upheaval, chaos.

I cannot imagine how I could ever stop rooting for the Buffalo Bills over the actions of a few players in a time of political upheaval.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.

When I got shot, it changed my life tremendously, and put me on the right path. And that's when everything started happening there for me with boxing and my family and just everything. My life just took a big turn and started going uphill.

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

There is nothing wrong with fighting, but when you're fighting an uphill battle on an uneven playing field, that's what I don't like.

We don't ever want to be in a position that we're fighting uphill. We don't want to looking up at China.