Quotes About Adversity

Almost everyone I know is battling something, whether it's allergies or depression. Whatever it is, it makes you feel less than who you are. I believe part of life's challenge is to work through that.

I was able to battle back through depression.

I lost my parents. I was totally alone and I had to manage everything all alone. It did put me in depression.

I feel for everybody that goes through it because depression is real, and it doesn't take much to put you in that state of mind to where you think everybody's against you, you're up against the world and that's not true.

I went through an extreme depression.

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home.

I am not Pollyannaish about the depths of the challenges we face.

Playing in the Manchester derby definitely helped me.

Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard.

How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?

I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.

Everybody deserves the opportunity to fight and fight with everything that they're given.

Designers may find the fashion business can shrivel up.

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest.

In my own mind, I was sort of a desperate kid.

I learnt not to be desperate in bad times and am learning not to be bullish when times are good.

Desperation is a fact of life in many poor, overcrowded countries.

I've taken a lot of crap. That's just the way life is. There are going to be writers who like you and writers who despise you.

My dad moved to Britain from Bangladesh in the 1960s to work as an actuary for Prudential. However, after seeing an empty retail space in Soho, he decided to open an Asian restaurant instead, despite not having any business experience.

I'm happy - despite things that might have happened in my life.

Despite growing up in very poor circumstances, my father had big dreams.

Things are gonna happen in life. Either you are gonna help do something about it or you just gonna let it happen and destroy you.

It's hard to see a certain type of press try to destroy your life.

There is a huge agenda behind trying to destroy me and put me down.