Quotes About Adversity

I suffered years of criticism. But there was a point in my life where I had to stand up and say: 'I don't care what anybody says about me. I have to stand up for my family, for the four children I had with Bob and the eight he had with other women.'

I never played the 'decoration,' I always played the one who suffered. And then I got very lucky in my middle career, when I started playing the hero, which at that point was quite rare for women.

I suffered a stroke in 2002 that made everything else in my life that happened to that point pale in comparison.

Traditionally the great men of our country have sprung from poor environments; that being so, it would appear we have long suffered from a severe lack of poverty.

Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.

I like someone who's suffered from both sides.

I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered from.

I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.

When I was growing up, I was told I was stupid and that I would never achieve. I suffered from dyslexia, and in those days it wasn't recognised.

Cancer doesn't care if you have suffered before.

Many Americans who have suffered during a recession have had to cut their spending 1 percent, and they didn't like doing it, but they were able to do it to get their family's finances back in order.

Very few people know anybody like John McCain, someone who suffered and had his body, yet not his spirit, broken for six years as a POW and who has served his nation.

When you're a writer and something difficult happens to you, one of the things involved in that is this emergence of narrative potential. And there's then a kind of self-consciousness about telling a story in which you suffered.

I suffered from asthma when I was a kid.

When I got to know about my cancer, I was at the rock bottom of my life, and my work suffered for it.

I had suffered from depression in my childhood.

I suffered a lot of criticism from the press and the fans, but I always kept motivating myself, working. I never dropped the shuttlecock.

I was a little low having suffered a few failures at the BO both as an actor and producer.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

It's at the borders of pain and suffering that the men are separated from the boys.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.

When you're in hell, you forget how great you really are because you're suffering and you forget the great things you've done.

I hope not to define myself by suffering.