Quotes About Adversity

Cold water is merciless, but righteous.

I'm a man at the end of the day and I come from the streets, the trenches, I came from nothing, water and cornflakes.

I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.

The lotus comes from the murkiest water but grows into the purest thing.

If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Like David Copperfield, I was born amidst poverty and grew up in poverty. I did not own shoes. I did not bathe in water from a tap. I did no know about forks and spoons.

South Sudanese people are rich like the soil; they just need a little water, and they will grow.

While I can't walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.

Some days I would go without any fire at all, and eat raw frozen meat and melt snow in my mouth for water.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

'Smoke On The Water' was ignored by everybody to begin with. We only did it in the shows because it was a filler track from 'Machine Head.' But then, one radio station picked up on it, and Warner Bros. edited it down to about three and a half minutes. It then started getting played by lots of different radio stations.

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

When I was working abroad, there was a time when I almost gave up because of my problem with my working visa in Canada. I remember that I collected bottles of mineral water and sold them to earn extra money.

If I close my eyes, I can remember the first apartment where I lived with my family in Newark, N.J., in the late 1930s. The rooms were lined up like train cars - you had to go through one to get to another - and there wasn't any heat or hot water.

I grew up in a house with no running water, 16 miles from the closest place that had a post office. I had a very parochial view of the world.

If you put 100 people on an island with no food, no water, no hope of a ship coming, then some will overcome it and be resourceful, some will live in it, others will panic, and others will show horrific character, which is wrong. But not to understand that all alternatives are possible is wrong as well.

When you're on top and you lead the parade, everyone's there throwing lilies and lilac water on your head. But when those parades have gone by and there's a storm in your heart, there are very few people that are going to sit there and listen to you bemoan life.

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

When I was 13 years old, my family and I lived on a farm in Puerto Rico that didn't have clean, running water all the time.

I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.

Bring it on - we all cook with water, I'm not scared of anyone.

We are on a difficult course, on a new Odyssey for Greece, but we know the road to Ithaca and have charted the waters.

In the midst of choppy waters, Missourians are fearless.