Quotes About Adversity

A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.

You go into battle with your strengths.

Sometimes your limitations become your strengths. It forces you to create your own niche.

One of the strengths I derive from my class background is that I am accustomed to contempt.

The interesting thing about my character Sylar is that my strengths as an actor seemed to go completely against the shape of a character in the shadow.

That is one of my greatest strengths. I am not afraid to face challenges or any matchup in the league.

What your strengths are are always going to be the things that you're going to go back to, especially in the that spot where you need to draw from deep within. You're tired. You're exhausted. The ability to really think things through is highly reduced from being in the midst of battle.

Don't stress over mean-girl antics.

That's kind of been my entire career, the stress and pressure.

There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether to let it affect you or not.

On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.

What I always do in times of trouble or stress is to try and do something I don't know how to do.

I don't stress at all. When other people say, 'I'm having a bad day,' I ask, 'How can you have a bad day for the entire 24 hours, or even 12 or eight hours?' Something bad might happen, but that can't make the entire day bad.

The thing is, you don't ever want to have pressure turn to stress.

The military and the Marine Corps prepared me to be numb to the stress.

All stress can be used to better yourself, each individual has to understand how to use that particular stress - whether it is in your relationship, personal life, your own thoughts about yourself - to become a better person.

It's when you begin to deal with stress mentally, physically and emotionally, that you can be truly fit.

With what I've gone through, that's why I try to not let a lot of stuff stress me out.

A lot of America is stressed by Mother Nature.

I was going into a slump during 'Ironman.' I found out I was a diabetic around that time, and I was just stressed out. My mind wasn't all the way there.

I've been through Hell with some of the members of my old band, and Hell is highly stressful.

I seem to get motivated a few months at a time, and then something stressful breaks the routine, and I just fold.

When things are difficult, awful, stressful, the thing that always gets you through is a sense of humour. I don't mean - well, maybe I do - laugh at the hangman as he puts the noose around your neck. But an eye, an ear, for the ridiculous, the absurd in life, can get you through a lot.

When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.