Quotes About Adversity

There's a real sense of desperation when you grow up in poverty.

You know how people love to glamorize poverty? There's nothing glamorous about it. But it did make me really creative. Those days, I was literally taking t-shirts in the day and sewing them back together to make dresses for the night.

We have common enemies today. It's called childhood poverty. It's called cancer. It's called AIDS. It's called Parkinson's. It's called Muscular Dystrophy.

I came from poverty and was part of those circumstances.

For some reason, I had a responsibility to my family and the people who lived around me. I felt that I had to convey their dignity - the way they dealt with adversity and poverty - and their good humor.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

Poverty leads to hardship and failure.

Every crisis offers you extra desired power.

Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.

I am beginning to have more powerful enemies and more envious ones, too.

I consider adversity being good sometimes, you know.

Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.

One isn't considered a bobsledder if he hasn't crashed.

If you are not performing consistently at a club like Arsenal, then there are other players ready to take the opportunity - which I learned the tough way.

When you are successful, there is the pressure of performing consistently; when you are not, there is the pressure of coming back and doing well.

Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you.

African leaders work really under severe limitations and constraints.

Bedroom Kandi is a favorite. It's something that people told me not to do, and I did it anyway and it worked out great. And then I have Bedroom Kandi consultants across the country.

I want people to learn from me, see I'm human, and understand that I make mistakes just like they do, but it doesn't have to consume you. You've got to walk through the raindrops, and that's totally what I am trying to do.

So many things will happen, for better or worse, in your career, and it's very easy for those things to bog you down or consume you. But when you get a chance to look back, you realize that those were not the things that were really important.

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

I've always been one to want a fair contest between bat and ball even as a batter, so if that's taken away I don't think that's great.

We came to know each other in war, and in war we continue.