Quotes About Adversity

Everyone makes mistakes; it's about the way you respond to it that's really important.

I believe that rejection is a blessing because it's the universe's way of telling you that there's something better out there.

Sure, we've had our fair share of ups and downs, but I don't know if we've had more than any other rock band... we just have a way of getting ourselves into hot water.

When things don't go your way, you've got to keep trying to do the right things.

The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.

Resilience can go an awful long way.

The way of the pioneer is always rough.

I will always find a way to find a positive from things.

If you don't have the right culture, in the difficult moments, the tree is going to shake, so my job is to convince everybody that this is how we are going to live, and if you are going to be part of this organisation it has to be in these terms and in this way.

You close the door on me and tell me I can't, I'm gonna find a way to get in.

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

There have been some ups and downs. I've not always had it my own way. That's the way racing is supposed to be.

I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.

I had a job on college campus. I lost that job, but on my way home I heard an inner voice that said go out for the baseball team. I was a walk-on, and I was actually petrified as a walk-on because you're not an athlete.

I don't think Wayne Rooney would be affected if you booed him, that's just how he is, but others go under. They really suffer with it. I think I'm somewhere in the middle... now. I've become tougher as I've got older.

Sometimes I understand how Bruce Wayne feels. When you take down a terrorist or something, there's always six guys to take their place. Everyone is Hydra. But you still have to do it.

Some of the great John Wayne hero things that have ever happened in football happened because people play hurt.

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

At various points, in big ways and small, we get knocked down. If we stay down, grit loses. If we get up, grit prevails.

Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.

The fact of being an underdog changes people in ways that we often fail to appreciate. It opens doors and creates opportunities and enlightens and permits things that might otherwise have seemed unthinkable.

To be held back by fear is to miss out on challenging yourself in different ways.

There are certain circumstances where I feel a little unlucky or why did this happen to me but I'm sort of transitioning from that and finding ways that I can learn from it and help with it.

There are two ways to go when you hit that crossroads in your life: There is the bad way, when you sort of give up, and then there is the really hard way, when you fight back. I went the hard way and came out of it okay. Now, I'm sitting here and doing great.