Quotes About Adversity

Life is about surviving loss.

My grandparents got out of Poland right before the Holocaust and came here, and the only thing that mattered was surviving.

Surviving failure is one thing. Surviving success is... is challenging, with the consequences and what you lose along the way.

My biggest inspiration has been life for me. Basic survival has been my biggest teacher. Surviving in Mumbai for so many years has been a huge ordeal.

I think that being a Wildling is essentially about surviving the cold, and in that department, the extras on our shoot excelled and needed no help from us.

Every single thing I do... is just me surviving.

Surviving is not something you need to learn. You don't need to learn survival skills; you have them already. That's why we're here, all of us, because it's a game of survival anyway.

The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.

I've always had the spirit of a survivor.

First of all, anybody who has lasted 30 and went through the 60's is really a survivor.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

I am someone who always gets up again, even if there are setbacks. I have a survivor instinct. I'm not sure where it comes from, but probably from all the little things that make you into who you are.

I grew up in a household with my mother, who was a Holocaust survivor. I very much understand the mentality that you cannot live in the past. You can't spend your entire life, or even portions of it, looking back and dwelling on things that have already happened. You have to move forward.

With 'Survivor' - I didn't get any sleep, there was no food, we had to boil our water... plus, it was physically taxing during the day. That's what made it more difficult than three-a-day practices.

I have survivor skills. Some of that is superficial - what I present to people outwardly - but what makes people resilient is the ability to find humour and irony in situations that would otherwise overpower you.

I see myself as a survivor, and I'm not ashamed to say I'm a survivor. To me, survivor implies strength, implies that I have been through something and I made it out the other side.

I've always had to be a survivor, kind of a loner.

Honestly, surviving in 'Bigg Boss' was a cakewalk as compared to staying in 'Survivor,' where we had to live in primitive-age conditions, even generating fire on our own.

Hi, I'm Bill. I'm a birth survivor.

I am that 'everyman' in that I have made every mistake you can make in your career and in your personal life. But I am a survivor.

I have always said about myself I am a survivor because I am.

Sometimes being a survivor is the greatest compliment you can get in Hollywood.