Quotes About Adversity

I've been called all kinds of stuff, it's part of the game. You take it personal, then you're in trouble. It will affect you, your training. It comes with the territory.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

In the right circumstances, terror is good. It makes you focus.

My grandfather was facing this terror, my parents, myself.

I think the right way to deal with terrorism is to carry on with normal life, like Britain used to when it was a more serious country.

I grew up in Punjab when terrorism was at its peak.

Those who committed these cowardly acts may believe that they have shaken our resolve to defeat terrorism. They could not be more wrong.

The British don't runaway from terrorism. We have had 30-odd years of terrorism in our own country from the Irish Republican Army. We're used to it.

I survived a terrorist attack and got stabbed another four times, literally stabbed in the heart, and somehow, I'm going to be 100 percent OK.

Do not let fear become disabling. That is what the terrorists want. They want you to imagine them in the shadows; they want you to imagine them as something greater than they are.

It's always important not to fall for the narrative of the terrorists. If you want to fight for getting a normal life back, you also have to participate.

C'mon now, I'm not going to make it easy for the terrorists to get me.

We must precisely do what the terrorists prevent us to do.

Did Google know much about media? Or Amazon about commerce? Tesla about cars? SpaceX about rockets? EBay about classifieds? What did I know about computing when I started Sun Microsystems? We should celebrate these entrepreneurs, not pillory them for fighting entrenched incumbent industries that have political influence and money.

To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.

I don't mind going into a liberal lion's den. That's where you test yourself.

Everything's the same; I'm living with cancer and it's not going to stop me. But until you really test yourself and challenge yourself, I don't think you quite know.

If you play 100-odd Test matches, there's going to be little periods when you don't score runs, and I've always managed to turn it around.

Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Any of us can be happy and have a good attitude when everything is going our way. But I believe it's the real test of your character and of your faith to say, 'Things are not going our way, but I'm still being good to people; I'm still attending church; I still have a good attitude.'

The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.

Every job I do, I like to think it makes me better or I learn things. It's all about how much something's going to stretch me or test me.

Just as crises can provide a test of anyone's character, they do so especially with presidents.

I am comfortable with five-days. I like the challenge of a five-day Test.