Quotes About Adversity

Over the years, I've learned that a sense of humor is the only skill that allows you to turn sucking at life into a career.

All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

I've had big record label presidents look me in the face and say, 'Your music sucks, you don't know who you are, your music is all over the place, and we don't know how to market this stuff. Pick a lane and come back to us.'

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it: It sucks to lose sometimes.

It sucks when you lose.

It is hard when you fall. I know that feeling. That disappointment sucks. You've just got to get up and keep moving.

I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

Rich and famous is not bad, but poor and famous sucks.

Being poor sucks... It's hard to figure out the secrets of the universe when you're trying to figure out where you and your girlfriend are going to sleep next month.

It just flat-out sucks losing. It really - it doesn't feel good.

The only thing I learned is that failure sucks, and you never want to do it. There's not a lot to be said for that particular lesson.

I think, losses, I think they teach you the most, but it's tough. I'm not gonna lie. It sucks. It's terrible. You can't sleep for two days.

I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.

It sucks when you can't play the game you love.

Being on the losing end of perfect games sucks. I tried not to make a habit of it during my career, but I couldn't help myself.

You have to learn how to fight through when it sucks and it's really hard.

Devin McCourty

You go from being with the guys all the time in the locker room, in practice, having a militarized brain in terms of this schedule, and then, all of a sudden, you are on your own. You lose a sense of purpose; you lose a sense of yourself. And you lose confidence. You find yourself saying, 'I was the best at this, and now I'm not the best.'

I grew up in Communist China and never had much money to my name, and then, all of a sudden, I had giant student loans.

All of a sudden their husband's dead and maybe a child is dead and they have absolutely nothing - and they're heading through the desert at night.

I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.

For a decade, I was a stay-at-home mom. I sent my husband to his law office, sat on PTA boards and baked cookies - great cookies. All of a sudden, I had no husband, no job, few prospects, and two small children who had grown accustomed to eating.

From squalls, jibes, and other sudden calamities, I learned you don't always get to decide when you've got to make a decision.

When I was just 13, we went from being middle class to lower middle class and finally lower class, as someone close to my father took away everything he had, including his property. All of a sudden, I started working at the age of 13.