Quotes About Adversity

Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.

Hardship is a legitimate test of character, resilience a legitimate sign of strength and patience a legitimate mark of faith.

...don't be afraid to fall. Your wings will catch you.

The economic crisis really affected my family - 2006 to 2011 were really bad times. Almost everybody in my family lost their jobs.

I'm the only hell my Mama ever raised.

I fell so many times and got back up. I been through the toughest times with my family, but I'm still standing.

One has to handle these negative experiences alone.You can't get help from your friends or family.You're finally alone with it, and you have to come to grips with misfortune and go on.

If I wasn't involved in this hip-hop sh*t, I'd probably be breakin' the law to eat and feed my family and maintain the lifestyle that I'm used to.

If you can raise a family, then you can build a business.

Whether it's at their job, or their family, whatever - everyone feels that they're stuck in some kind of struggle. The idea is how to find your way out of it.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

Growing up in a lower-income family, you don't have the resources to make ends meet and you have to find creative ways to get by.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

Both of my parents are professors and everyone in my family has some fabulous degree of something or another and I couldn't get into college because I didn't know a language.

I wanted to become a champ - I was surrounded by champs in my family and in my neighborhood - and because of this stupid accident, I lost my opportunity.

You were born with a snake in both of your fists while a hurricane was blowing.

I told myself that some families we get without asking, while others we choose. And I chose those two. I think that's what you'd call a silver lining.

Disease may score a direct hit on only one member of a family, but shrapnel tears the flesh of the others.

I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.

My family survived losing money to Bernie Madoff incredibly well compared to others.

My family are amazing. I had like, the perfect upbringing. It sucks for people like Lindsey [Lohan], but it's not her fault she's so off the rails.

Don't get angry; get better.

If you ask me what's harder, being famous or flying to space, I'd say fame is much harder.

In a stagnant environment the body-mind creates its own adversity – disease and fantasy.