Quotes About Adversity

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won't see why we go.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

On a mountain covered with ice, the sharp points in front of your shoes help cling and climb. But on Carstensz Pyramid, I had to pull my body upward.

It was an impossible ask to go out to Russia and knock out Kovalev. I felt that was the only way I'd win, but I made a good account of myself and we keep moving onwards and upwards.

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens.

I once termed my sense of dress as 'urban farmer' and that became a perennial source of bullying from my friends, particularly my brother.

In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.

A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt.

The only benefit a woman can have in talking too much is defeating a man who troubles her too much.

A marriage is about how clever you deal with it, not about pushing it away when hurricanes come crashing down. You've to be strong and find a way to not let the world tear your marriage apart.

When you find yourself in a very hard situation, a circumstance that holds you by the balls, that's the time you wish you were created a woman!(women don't own balls)

Don't let yesterday's storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.

Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels.

Go ahead with your life your plans.... Don't waste time by stopping before the interruptions have started.

She sat silent, looking straight ahead. What did he care about the hot sun on her head? What did she care? Nothing worse could possibly happen to her.

No matter how hard you work to bring yourself up, there's someone out there working just as hard, to put you down.

Hard work pays off, dreams come true. Bad times don't last, but BAD GUYS do.

Anybody who doesn't have fear is an idiot. It's just that you must make the fear work for you. Hell when somebody shot at me, it made me madder than hell, and all I wanted to do was shoot back.

When I hear people boo, that just makes me want to go out there and work harder.

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.

That which hinders your task is your task.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.

If at first you don't succeed, try again. If it still doesn't work out, success may not be your thing.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.