Quotes About Adversity

I'm loyal to a fault - even though I've been to hell and back with Vince McMahon, I would never to do anything to hurt him. But it's also survival of the fittest out there.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

Over the years, I've been involved in many business crises. I qualify this, since my crises have never involved life and death or the survival of the human race. But they are still crises.

I have been fascinated with survival and having to go on no matter what. That always appealed to me.

I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.

If something happens and you're behind, and you get hit in the mouth early like that, you have two options: You can either pack it in mentally and internally and go into survival mode and quit, or you're going to get up and go to work.

There are a lot of comedians that were bullied and picked on, and that's why they became comedians. Survival of the fittest.

I became a stand-up because that was my survival.

In the 74 years and nearly four months marking her time on what she called this crooked old Earth, my mother rarely drew a healthy breath. Still, to say that life wasn't fair for this awkwardly glib, yet deeply religious woman, would fail to take into account her towering instinct for survival.

When I'm interested in an aspect of someone's life, I want to ask about their experiences, their survival strategies, and what they do to keep their lives interesting.

For me, it was always survival. Learn where not to be at so you don't get shot. Learn where not to walk at so you don't get jumped. Learn who to stand up to, who not to stand up to. And then, when I got old enough to get a chip on my shoulder, I wanted to be the dog. I wanted to be the alpha.

I fought for my survival since infancy.

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

I fight on emotions. When I don't fight on emotions, I don't fight well. I fight on emotion, because I'm in for survival.

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception?

As a kid, my goal was survival.

There is no planning in a life of fighting to keep a roof over your head. It's pure survival.

You know, if I can survive marching band, I can survive anything.

Dark comedy helped me survive.

We all survive more than we think we can.

I didn't die young. So I am very lucky. There are other artists and people that didn't survive certain things... people can imagine that I did the most dangerous, and I did the worst... for many reasons, I shouldn't be here.

Any organisation has to go through at least one depression to see how it survives, and a normal economic cycle takes seven years.