Quotes About Adversity

My father had sent me to Chennai on the condition that if I didn't make it in two years time, I had to be back in Coimbatore, find myself a job and settle down.

When you are asked to open the batting in overcast conditions, it is a challenge.

It's so easy to just give up or get angry with the course or the conditions, but you can't do that.

When you go out to play in different conditions against different bowlers, it is always challenging.

The way I live my life or conduct myself when I have a problem is very different from many of the characters I play.

Bullies will attack your confidence, but you cannot let them kill your ambition.

I am sort of drawn toward places in the world where there is struggle and conflict.

As an actor, I'm always interested in my characters getting into trouble, because conflict is, you know, the great determiner of someone's mettle.

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going.

At any given moment, if I see my bully, the guy who's trying to conquer me, we're going to find out. And if we could fight every time we came across each other, we would.

I believe that you can't know courage without conquering fear, and you can't really know joy without knowing sadness.

It wasn't a conscious decision to pick only positive roles. Things just fell into place.

You have a chance to show your true colors through adverse times. You can make a conscious decision to change things.

For me, I had a close family. There were others like me who were going through a lot of rough times, so we always came together. It was understood that we would overcome hate, as long as you surround yourself with love and what's real.

When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.

It's difficult to look on the bright side when you're surrounded by negativity.

If you're in the middle of a field, surrounded by armies, left right and centre, you can't just say: 'I've had enough now, sorry.'

When I was growing up, we never had much money. My parents were divorced young, but I was always surrounded by loving individuals. They couldn't give us riches, but they gave us their stories, their hearts, and their time.

People mess up all the time. Michael Vick, he made some mistakes. He surrounded himself around the wrong people. And you've got to be careful with that. But he's redeemed himself and came back.

Life is not always like chess. Just because you have the king surrounded, don't think he is not capable of hurting you.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

We were like a white family from the 1920s or something. My parents had this bizarre, different way of looking at things from the people that surrounded us. I went to an all-Mexican grade school and an all-black high school, and not many people in those places liked the same stuff as me.

At some point in your life, you'll find yourself in a similar position: Surrounded by people who are smarter, faster, who have more experience and more money - and you'll just have to find a way. And you'll have to do it with passion.

Things can be tough even when surrounded by nice Pottery Barn stuff.