Quotes About Adversity

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

You have to face fears head on.

You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.

Everyone fears change. But what you'll find is that change breeds your most important accomplishments.

We all have our fears, but it's about how you take up the challenge.

I don't feed off of the boos, I don't feed off anything like that... No one likes to get booed, no one likes to get cussed out, no one likes to get yelled at by 20,000 fans when you go places.

Even though my earlier film 'Idhu Yenna Mayam' didn't do well, I got a lot of good feedback.

Obviously, it's disappointing when you put on a shirt and get negative feedback, but at the same time, it's what the fans want to see; they want to see you perform well.

You can always do something that can make you feel good about your life despite what you're going through.

Sometimes things get hard, especially if you are not having a great game or not feeling good within your cricket.

You have seen on TV how hard it is to go up 129,000 feet and how hard it is to come down.

My audiences who love me don't mind me dancing with two left feet.

I fell off a bridge when I was, like, 17 years old and got electrocuted by 15,000 volts of electricity - fell 30 feet.

I've always been interested in the idea of people who fell through the cracks.

I remember integrating the all-white Yazoo City High School after my Black school closed its doors. Teachers sprayed me with fire extinguishers, and I carried a stick to fend off attacks from fellow students.

Everything that I was ridiculed for as a child - being too feminine or wearing a dress - has made my life fabulous now.

Being attacked by right-wing Christians did not bother me. Being attacked by liberal feminists did.

My dad prepared me for the worst of times while also enabling me to succeed in the best. He taught me to confront the insidiousness of racism head on, no matter what the ramification, so it will not fester. Defeat it and get past it. That was The Talk. Nothing scared me after that.

People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.

I always had a fetish for fighting big peoples. My dad put me in the ring with much bigger guys. In my first fight, I gave the guy a 14-pound advantage.

I lost a brother and a sister, and I came down with rheumatic fever.

A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them.

All of us in Canada have to be better at making a dollar count, because we have fewer dollars.

It's extremely difficult to dink and dunk all the way down the field. Defenses are just too good.