Quotes About Adversity

One needs to live every day according to God's commandments. And then any kind of difficulty or unpleasantness will be manageable.

Difficulty does not deter me. In fact, I find challenges exciting.

A lot of times, you had to beat the bullies at their own game. But the difficulty is not becoming the bully yourself.

Emigration is always a difficulty.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

People tell me their own stories about how they have come through great difficulty.

Sometimes I think the most difficult moments in life were actually good because they made me strong. I was a child labourer. From this, I learned to stand on my own feet. So I don't want to forget the difficulty of my life.

In times of difficulty we all have to understand our responsibilities.

I'm very confident that God has a way of bringing good from difficulty.

Difficulty is when you go to a place where the people don't like you, they put a burden on you like what happened to me in Olympiakos.

I need to have people doubting me, because that's when you dig deep and find out what you're made of.

We are at a massive club here at Manchester United and if things aren't going as well as they should be then there is always going to be people wanting to have a dig and a pop at you.

In life, when what has happened happens to you, you don't digest it.

Every season will have its dips and hard moments, and the challenge then is to make sure you don't get too down in those moments and make sure you come back fighting.

When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.

The lesson was an Absa Cape Epic can go all directions: to the good and to the bad.

A lecturer once told me I could never be a director. I was 16. I believed him.

There are some moments where you're so depressed, you cannot see the way, and you're like, 'Whatever. Bite me.' I think all directors feel that way sometimes.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

My mom had to be resourceful. She grew up dirt poor in rural Louisiana.

My goal is to beat you whether you're clean or dirty.

People who have it too easy in early life have a disadvantage for later on, because they get to thinking that everything is going to be easy.

No matter who I fight, I'm going to be at a disadvantage in the experience department.

I don't disagree with the critics often, and I'm not destroyed by bad criticism anymore. There comes a point when you go beyond it.