Enduring Adversity Quotes

Hunker down like a jackass in a hail storm and wait till the wind stops blowing.

It is better to die once than to be always in fear of death.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

I tried and failed. I tried again and again and succeeded.

In time of difficulties, we must not lose sight of our achievements.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

I can play with pain. It doesn't bother me.

My high threshold for pain will allow me to battle through pretty much anything if I find a way to run and slide.

A lot of people give up just before they're about to make it. You know you never know when that next obstacle is going to be the last one.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

If you mind tells your body you can't do it, you will quit. If your body is giving up, but you think you can carry on, you will naturally keep putting one foot in front of the other.

Omar Sharif and I spent nine months in the desert, day after day for nine months.

Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering preferring a certain present to an uncertain future/

I'm not going to try and sit here and be Superman.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

I may not be the biggest guy in the world or strongest guy in the world. I don't have those gifts. But I will take more punishment, and I'm willing to withstand more abuse.

We've had to develop a super-thick skin. We've been beaten up more than any band in history.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.

We've had drive-by shootings. I've been spat on, slapped, shot at. One guy tried to stab me with a broken beer bottle. But the way we look at it, if people do the worst they can, we'll still wake up in glory.

The man who can drive himself further once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.

I was so exhausted after fighting for the project for five years, shooting it was like the Bataan Death March.

The physical and emotional qualifications to survive an apocalypse are naturally equalizing.

I don't have the will for singing but I must do it.