Quotes About Adversity

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

I try to find scripts of stories that kinda celebrate the human condition... let's talk about the tough world out there and the human spirit overcoming adversity.

My songs are always about overcoming things, whether it's breaking up with a guy or just trying to be happy. They're always about being better.

Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.

'Kimmy' first and foremost is a show about a woman overcoming the odds. I think that they write the show in a way that you're not beaten over the head with it, but showing and not telling. I think that's really powerful.

All my life, I believe in overcoming challenges.

If you look at my career it has always been about overcoming difficulties in different places.

If you watch closely a highlight of my fights, you will see armbars and everything. But if you really watch, what you'll see most of all is me getting back up. The power of getting back up. And to try again. It's all about overcoming.

I am proud of myself for overcoming adversity.

Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures circling overhead saying things like, 'Well, you know it's the end of your career.'

I've been shortchanged and overlooked my whole life. And if you boo-hoo about everything, that's all you're going to do your whole life.

Nothing was ever easy in Memphis and I think that's why the fans were drawn to our team so much. It's because the way we played and the way we got overlooked and the respect that we didn't get most of the time was very similar to how the city felt and how the locals felt about life in general. It was an easy bond.

I'm always going to be overlooked. That's just how it is. That's how the league is.

Courage consists not in blindly overlooking danger, but in seeing it, and conquering it.

When it happened to us and it was all gone overnight, we said, 'We are in this together, we are healthy, our children are healthy and we can work'.

I grew up overnight on that day, Dec. 27, 2007.

In 1983, the government imposed a ban on the import of gensets. I was out of business overnight. I was in trouble.

I went from absolutely nothing to a lot of people judging me overnight, and it was really tough for me.

Let me just say this - sometimes being a trailblazer is highly overrated.

I've never broken a bone, I've never even sprained anything, so to be overseas and have my clavicle broken in two places was a bang-up job done by me.

No team wanted me. No overseas team. Not even a D-League team.

People might not know much about Akavov, but this is a guy who went overseas and gave Billy Joe Saunders absolute hell. Most people thought that he should have won the fight.

There's still a lot of people who don't like me, but they are now overshadowed by the people who do like me.