Quotes About Adversity

I might get a break again, and I might get back on telly. If I don't, I'll just keep doing stand-up and doing the best gigs I can.

A lot of life is dealing with your curse, dealing with the cards you were given that aren't so nice. Does it make you into a monster, or can you temper it in some way, or accept it and go in some other direction?

It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.

It has pleased and interested me to see how I could get along under difficult circumstances and with so much discomfort but as I say I was not sent out here to improve my temper or my health or to make me more content with my good things in the East.

Had I not went to jail I may not be alive. My temper was really awful.

Besides being a slum kid with no great education in anything except how to fight and stay alive and steal, I also had this temper.

I don't cancel because of temperament. I have had seven major surgeries in my life. I have had tumors. I have had two children with Caesareans; you don't just get up and sing the day after one of those.

Imagine what our planet would look like with an increase in temperature of two degrees or four degrees, given that at 0.8 degrees we already have serious problems in the world.

When you fully focus in the match, you don't think too much about the atmosphere and the climate. Even if the temperature goes up, we will both sweat the same.

I have 16 metal screws in my right arm, from the elbow to the shoulder, and they are extremely painful at the beginning of a training camp and also when the temperature changes. I also had a surgery on my left arm and two on my hips. Those four surgeries were pivotal in my decision to retire.

It's hard to be happy when you are facing 120 to 140 degree temperatures and nothing seems to be moving in a direction that you think or they think or you've been told it's supposed to be moving in.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Once I was not allowed to offer prayers in temple and was attacked by my fans.

People don't drop me with shots on the temple.

I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.

If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.

Often in Spain you're winning 2-0, there are 15 minutes left, and it's as good as over. You control it, and the tempo drops. In England, that doesn't happen. They put another striker on, long balls into the area, free-kicks, corners. They push you back.

Success and failure is temporary. So don't let them get to you.

Losing isn't bitter because it's temporary.

Physical pain is temporary.

My grandma forbid us from describing ourselves as poor. She said, 'we're broke.' Because broke is temporary.

Embarrassment is a villain to be crushed.

All of us have bad luck and good luck. The man who persists through the bad luck - who keeps right on going - is the man who is there when the good luck comes - and is ready to receive it.