Quotes About Adversity

A lot of guys, if they're a face and they see their drawing ability start to falter, they'll turn heel and they're right back on top again. Same thing with a heel. All of a sudden they'll turn into a good guy. Ric Flair has done that throughout his career a number of times.

Cincinnati beats you up for three days, and all of a sudden it's doom and gloom. I cannot live my life that way.

To all of a sudden go from feeling almost invincible to being temporarily paralyzed to then having rods and screws in my neck and not really being able to move around to seeing my body change, I definitely, definitely, definitely did not feel myself at all.

All of my life had been spent in the shadow of apartheid. And when South Africa went through its extraordinary change in 1994, it was like having spent a lifetime in a boxing ring with an opponent and suddenly finding yourself in that boxing ring with nobody else and realising you've to take the gloves off and get out, and reinvent yourself.

I've had a bad time, which we won't dwell on. We were married and we worked together for 52 years, and suddenly with her gone I was a quadriplegic. Slowly I'm crawling back.

When I am made fun of in the press I just remember those days when I'd come home to find that the water had been turned off because my mother couldn't afford the bill. Suddenly, everything feels easier.

In 1998, the acting roles suddenly bottomed out. I was no longer getting scripts; even my agent stopped calling. When I finally got him on the phone to ask him what was going on, he paused, then said: 'Well, Christine, you're 45.' I got rid of him.

I decided there and then to sue the bastards.

Have you ever been sued by a midget? It's not fun.

I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

I've been sued, harassed, abused, but I've held my own.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I am not a politician... I only suffer the consequences.

I don't suffer of anything that I've lost.

Every time I get an injury or suffer from a personal setback, that's exactly what I do: I persevere.

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

Often they benefit who suffer wrong.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

It isn't easy to suffer failure, go through all the pain and the hardship.

You can't stigmatize people, you can't cut away people you admire just because they suffer AIDS. It's just not right.

People don't know what pain is until they suffer.

Too many of us suffer from pervasive feelings of personal powerlessness. We have a terrible habit of obstructing our own paths forward, especially at the worst possible moments.