Quotes About Adversity

Superglue after duct tape a girl's best friend.

The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.

The best thing that ever happened to me was losing last year in the Finals. I had to change.

When I turned 18, I lost my best friend to a car accident.

Even when it is the most challenging, you will never know how far you will go unless you do It your way.

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Being traded is like celebrating your 100th birthday. It might not be the happiest occasion in the world, but consider the alternative.

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.

The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.

the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.

Anyone can do the job when things are going right. In this business we play for keeps.

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Remember that no talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the fault-finding business. Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it.

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

Everyone experiences tough times, it is a measure of your determination and dedication how you deal with them and how you can come through them.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

Forget about 40 years in show business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie is enough.

Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.

Any business plan won't survive its first encounter with reality. The reality will always be different. It will never be the plan.