Quotes About Adversity

The strongest people are not those who strength in front of us bot those who win battles we know nothing about

In 1774, John Adams wrote in his diary, "We have not men fit for the times. We are deficient in genius, education, in travel, fortune—in everything.

The person who fails is a hero, the backbone of the change effort. Failure gains that person more respect, not less.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

My father raised me from the time I was 12 years old. And it would never occur to me that I wouldn't be strong - I wasn't raised like that.

When I was growing up and trying to get my foot on the ladder, I had the self-belief that my mother taught me, and it never occurred to me that anything could go wrong. I've learned life can't be like that.

I've taken a few public hits in my career, and I never hid the pain of it from my children. Nor did I hide the regrouping and rethinking that occurred after each one. After all, that process allowed me to re-emerge and go on to build a more impactful - and more engaging - career path than the one I had been knocked off of.

I've always embraced battles that are a daily occurrence.

In life, comedy occurs naturally, as it should, in the most appalling of circumstances.

I kind of went through a rough period. I could have kept going down that road and then off the cliff and into the ocean.

I've gone from the top of the world to the bottom of the ocean.

My family fled Iran in October 1978 as a result of the coming revolution when I was two years old. In the early days, my entire family lived together in a very crowded house, where I shared a room with my sister, cousin, and grandmother, and we would all listen to my grandmother tell stories before bedtime.

Having no legs doesn't mean you can't drive fast and I wasn't going to be happy scoring the odd point. I thought it was possible to win and went for it.

I was a housepainter and a landscape nursery man, and all these various odd jobs I had, and started doing community theater.

I'm oddly comfortable in the ring.

I'm not at all interested in the brave who fight against the odds and win. I am interested in those who accept their lot, as that is what many people in the world are doing. They do their best in ghastly conditions.

My advice to young entrepreneurs is not to accept defeat in the face of odds, and challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction.

I've been defying the odds my entire life.

My story was not a football story. My story was more about going against the odds of what life was handing me.

That's when you know you're the greatest: when you're the greatest, and people still put odds against you.

I like to be against the odds.

'Striker' is a story of the human spirit triumphing over all odds.

My thing with the Secret Six is that they never win. The odds are always against them; everyone wants them gone. So they never win. But they never give up, either.

I want children to know that they can create the life they dream of despite the odds that are against them.