Quotes About Adversity

When you're in that position - when things are crumbling around you - the thing to remember always is that, 'If I quit, this is all it's ever going to be. It's never going to get better.'

I constantly have people who quit their jobs just to go on the Internet and try to stop me at any and all costs.

I wanted to quit Nichia. I didn't care about anything. It was OK for them to fire me. I was not afraid of anything.

At an early age, I quit high school at 17 and joined the Air Force.

I started out at Procter & Gamble marketing panty liners, so basically selling women insecurity. I thought there must be more to life than this. Then I was on set for a Dr. Scholl's commercial, and I asked one of the execs, 'How do you get a job behind the camera?' and he said, 'Film school.' So I quit and applied to NYU.

Fighting, especially at this level, is about getting through adversity. You position yourself mentally to go out and take on obstacles that stand in your way. In the Octagon and in life, you face tough situations and have every chance to quit, but the more adversity you push through, the more likely you are to be successful.

There's moments where things are harder than others, and there are obviously questions, but when it comes down to it, there is no quit in me.

I was a basketball player. And my mother even wanted me to quit because I hurt my leg. But I didn't know anything about football - from Pee-Wee on up, my friends would play, and I would never go with them.

You cannot imagine how many people called, how many letters, how many emails. Every place I go, people ask me, 'Please, don't quit.'

I always felt like - I mean, I was told, really - I couldn't go too far with the productions because it didn't appeal to black radio. It wasn't until I decided I was going to do what I wanted to do or I was going to quit that I empowered myself. I took my power back.

It's always discouraging to lose. You look at it and think, 'Man, what's going on?' It's always discouraging. But I'm a fighter. I don't like to quit.

It is very, very difficult to quit when you're losing. And nobody does it well.

When things just get bad you can't quit, you just have to keep fighting.

In the national team, many guys quit, did not want to play, and we had a really young team, and we changed the coach. Many things happened for us.

Losing is not an option in Kolkata. It's not easy, a lot of players even quit.

Before the McClellan fight, people were worried. Since that fight other people say I should quit but I think people should just keep their noses out of my business.

It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

I had to grow up quite quickly.

Fans insult me and call me 'monkey.' At first, I was quite shocked, but now I do not give it importance.

I get quite depressed and unmotivated by my injuries.

You need quite good shock absorbers and a sense of humour to be the Prime Minister's child.

My last couple of films, 'ABCD 2' and 'Rock On 2,' didn't do as well as expected. It affected me quite a bit, but then easier said than done, I had to stop thinking about it and continue doing what I love doing best!

I actually did not like to run. It was probably my least favorite thing that I had to do, and then in 1999, I was diagnosed as a type 1 diabetic. It was really strange. One good thing to do for diabetes is to exercise. I don't really like gyms anymore, and I travel quite a bit, so I realized that you can just take shoes and shorts and run anywhere.

I fight quite a bit.