Quotes About Adversity

Remember to play after every storm.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

You have to find what makes you stable in the storm. Then, no matter what's happening round you, no matter what the hype or the publicity, you can still manage to make leaps in your work as an artist.

Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.

My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.

We are facing a storm that most of us have long feared.

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

I moved to New York when I was 17 and I had no idea what I was doing. I really thought I was going to take that city by storm and it taught me a lot; it was like the school of life. For me, it was like a series of really hilarious experiences in New York with getting jobs and getting fired.

I've been the lull, and I've been the storm and also somewhere in between. But that's OK. I love the limelight after all.

I am resilient like my mother and have the ability to face any kind of storm.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

I've been working in Haiti 28 years - I thought I'd sort of seen it... I've gone through a number of coups, the storms of 2008, I thought, you know, that I'd seen things as bad as they were going to get, and I was wrong.

It's easy to praise God in the good times, but what about when the storms of your flesh are a-brewin'? Not so easy then!

We mainly shot 'Cartel Land' with the Canon C300. The camera was dropped, smashed, hit by guns, in dust storms, torrential rain, and it never, ever failed.

South Floridians, we can relate to storms where you just brace and hold your breath and even when you're holding your breath you know the worst is coming.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Everybody has their own story; everybody has their own journey.

America loves a good comeback story!

Don't forget, you are the hero of your own story.

Extreme pain to extreme pleasure has been the story of my entire life.

Everyone has their story. Everyone has issues. You have to face your fears.

Not many things bug me, but if there's one thing that does, it's the idea that my story is a football fairytale.

I am over that phase where any kind of story would bother me, be it personal or professional. I just laugh it off and forget about it.

I grew up in the Midwest, and I was a short, fat, little Jewish kid... but it was just different. People didn't understand, so I had to deal with it. One day, I physically dealt with it, and it never happened again. I'm not saying that's the way to do it, but you have to stand up for yourself, period, end of story.