Quotes About Adversity

Sometimes you don't have your best stuff every day. You've just got to go out there and try to make pitches.

I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.

I think what's fabulous about 'Living the Dream' is that accidents happen to them and they've got dramas and pitfalls to get through, but they do it as a united pair.

You know, it's just a matter of working through the pitfalls sometimes and working through the challenges that lie ahead.

I love to go play in Pittsburgh. I try to have as much fun as I can... I love being Public Enemy No. 1. I believe it's the greatest honor one can have.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

Luke Cage isn't going to throw a pity party for himself. He literally says to himself, 'This is the world I'm in. These are the circumstances I have.' He's a self-made man. He's trying to continuously build, and that's what's interesting about him. He's a work in progress.

If you think you're gonna have pity on me or take it easy on me, then I'm gonna have to help you off your back.

Most of us have faced a - faced a serious budget problem or another at some pivotal moment in our lives.

Throughout Pixar's history, we've had major meltdowns and crises. It's happened throughout our history: you reach a certain point, it doesn't work, and you start all over again.

It's been a long road. I've been cut, I've been all over the place, but my mentality has never changed.

I don't want people to see me fall. I mean, I got enough people cheering for me to fall now... The Internet has created some amazing place for evil to exist, you dig?

I never expected to be the face of sexual harassment. But I never give up on anything. So when placed in a new, challenging situation, it's like, 'I'm going to give this 110% because that's what I've done my entire life.'

At some point, most of us reach a place where we're afraid to fail, where we instinctively avoid failure and stick only to what is placed in front of us or only what we're already good at. This confines us and stifles us.

Often, bumpy roads lead to beautiful places.

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.

I enjoy Impact so much because some places, if they see you down, they won't be good enough to come take your hand and help you with what you're going through.

I've been in places that have been robbed.

It was clear that it wouldn't always be plain sailing for me.

The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

If Plan A fails, they could always revert to Plan A.

After my grandfather's plane took enemy fire, he was denied permission to land at the first available airstrip. In that classic British bureaucratic way, they said he had to go back to your own airbase in the Midlands. They crashed between the coast and the airfield.