Quotes About Adversity

Once upon a time they had some bad luck, and they blame everything on that.

In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.

Being a kid, by the time I was three years old, my mom was married, divorced and had three kids; she was 19 - so, my brother's just older than my mom.

I used to have a real problem with self-pity. Every time the devil would throw a pity party, I would attend.

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

We've all fallen, but at the same time we're not broken. There is the hint that we are going to get up again.

Luckily, I never feel at one time more than half my pains.

I don't know how you can go through a four-hour match with Rafa and he never gets a time violation.

The next time you face a challenge, remember that the cost of success is far cheaper than the price of failure.

I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit.

I wouldn't be doing motherfu**ing films for almost three decades if every time I did something that someone didn't like I went in a fu**ing cocoon and just hid there and didn't make my art.

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.

There must come a time when the bullets will run out

I enjoyed my time as Raw Co-Owner. Actually I got beat more! I got beat up a lot as Co-owner but it was ok.

The only time you're calm, you're centered, you're at peace, is when someone's trying to kill you. And that's just plain twisted.

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Every time I read the paper those old feelings come on.We are waist deep in the Big Muddy and the big fool says to push on.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

Kids come up to me all the time and say, 'Once I was going through a really bad time, and I saw you crash and get up, and it inspired me.'

Feeling sorry for yourself for one single minute is okay, but spend all your remaining time on solutions.

You'll be bothered from time to time by storms, fog, snow. When you are, think of those who went through it before you, and say to yourself, 'What they could do, I can do.'

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I'd seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

When I wasn't killing time in school, I was sparring in the gym or selling crack on the strip.