Quotes About Adversity

There was a period of time when I couldn't seem to get anything. I was on the series 'Daniel Boone,' and then, when that ended, I was still under 18, so I was too young to be in the older category and too old to be a child. So there was a few years there that were dry.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that. I did as well as I could at Newcastle.

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.

We want to show the world that even if you go through some bad periods, you always have to think positive just to go forward.

A season is very long, and there will be periods where you'll be very good and moments where you won't be as good.

There were periods during my childhood when I stammered so badly I couldn't talk at all.

All players have 'ordinary' periods in their career and it's hard to explain why. So at these times, its all about self belief, hard work and hopefully you get the break and your form returns.

Back in my mid-20s I was told I'd never be able to have children as I wasn't having periods. Doctors tried to start up my monthly cycles, but when nothing worked, they actually offered me a hysterectomy. Without it, they said I might get ovarian cancer in the future. I chose not to have the operation, and am so glad I didn't.

Even your favorite celebrities go through tough periods and have heartbreak. They must empower themselves with healthy choices, as do you!

I have had periods of depression in my life.

You don't get many periods in your life when it all goes your way.

One of the main reasons I started writing these one-man shows was that this really evil casting director once said to me, 'you're peripheral and you'll always be peripheral. You'll come in with the zingers and have very little to do, so just accept that and take the money.'

My friends were dropping like flies, and the government wasn't doing anything. You don't watch an entire generation take water hoses and dogs on the front line during the '60s or watch another generation perish from AIDS and then get to drive around in big cars and do nothing.

I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.

I've got cut half in two, once, and blowed up a time or two, but nothing permanent.

I went through my entire athletic life as a basketball player with only minimal physical setbacks, the worst being a couple of brain concussions, one in a college game in 1948, the other in 1954 while playing in the Eastern League, from which I recovered without permanent damage.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

I cannot explain it; but when difficulties arise, I am not perplexed or doubtful. I know how to meet them.

As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.

The more I get persecuted, the more people knock on my door in support.

I think if you come from a history of persecution you have to develop a sense of humour.

Kinsey would identify himself with Galileo in moments of feelings of persecution.

Journalism has a special, hallowed place for stories of its practitioners' persecution.

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.