Quotes About Adversity

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

In the end I didn't get a top car any more. I had no toughness left. That was the reality.

If I can sell out clubs and theaters and play dirtbags in movies, and get blown up in a car or get the crap beat out of me in a movie, that's good for me; I'm good.

When I was living on the street I would be standing out in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater, leaning against my car and signing autographs and nobody had any idea that I was living in it.

I'm just a little old cartoonist, tryin' to make a buck.

I've wrecked my fair share of cars. I've had my fair share of injuries. If you put too much focus on it or you really worry about it, it's going to consume you. That's never good.

I was like, "If I don't change my mind, if I don't change my heart, if I don't develop some skill, I'm always going to be sleeping in my car."

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

Every single day, we could be in a motorcar accident, so, we have to carry on with our lives, and not imagine terror around every corner.

I'm not good at normal things. I can't drive a car. I couldn't read till I was 10.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

We all know about the car breaking down on a deserted road scenario. That's cliché. I'm thinking more of Cider with Rosie, as in, the dark side.

[On her mastectomy:] Fact is, I'm the same car I always was, except now I have a dent in my fender.

I'm a tough person. I wasn't afraid of other kids because I understood that someday they'd wash my car.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

The Jiu Jitsu I created was designed to give the weak ones a chance to face the heavy and strong.

The difference between a sand trap and water hazard is the difference between a car crash and an airplane crash. You have a chance of recovering from a car crash.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it.

The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels.

I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

Lance Armstrong, the famous cyclist and more importantly, cancer survivor, has said 'if you ever get a second chance for something, you've got to go all the way.'

Problems are chances for us to do our best.