Quotes About Adversity

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

It's the way of life in Saginaw. If you're not tough, you don't survive.

We did everything we could to save my legs, and it just came to a point where if we didn't amputate my legs, I wouldn't survive. In that situation, you kind of go into survival mode, and you find strength.

I think part of being human is learning to roll with the punches, to deal with any kind of personal or professional disaster that might crop up. You have to learn to deal with that stuff or not survive.

When I really want to be comforted myself, what I look for is a story about how somebody could survive something really difficult.

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Quality survives.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

I only have one subject. The question I am obsessed with is: How do children survive?

It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.

To step on a bomb, have your legs blown off and survive, is lucky. Everybody has a good-luck story. Mine was the fact that the senior medic was on patrol that day. Those who don't have a good-luck story are the ones who don't make it.

Strong organizations with strong risk controls will survive and prosper.

For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive.

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.

We survived a Slayer crowd every night for about 50 days and thought we could do about anything after that.

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel.

Look what happened when I fought Anderson Silva. It can't possibly get worse than that. I've already seen the bottom and it wasn't that bad. I made it through. I survived. It's fighting. It's not the end of the world.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

'Gaucho' was a struggle for us for a lot of reasons, and in the end, we just sort of survived it.

We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.

The Iranian regime is nothing if not resilient. It fought an eight-year-long war with Iraq to a draw despite losing hundreds of thousands of lives; it has survived decades of isolation.