Quotes About Adversity

It's been a long rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

If my life had gone in a different direction - some of the choices you makes when you're in your teens and your early 20s, I fortunately feel that I haven't been marked by those things.

At key crossroads in his life, Vernon Davis has continued to make a conscious choice to grow as a person and player. His determination through adversity since his childhood days is commendable.

The nature of life is to face us with ourselves, until we are able to handle the problems that knocked us into the dirt yesterday.

I've had a few setbacks in my life, but I never gave up.

You are entering a phase of your life in which many different things will occur...bad things that seem good at first and good things that seem bad at first.

The sooner you accept the fact that you will have both successes and failures, the easier it will be to get your business and personal life headed in the right direction.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

The thing is, our generation, we fight every day to get through life.

One stumble is enough to deface the character of an honorable life.

The overcoming of adversity and, ultimately, denying it the rite of passage, has been a constant and perpetual motive throughout my life.

Life's all about making choices. You've made the choice to pick up the pieces and keep going, even when you've been devastated over and over again.

You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.

The best university is the university of life.

But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.

P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

At first, when I got bad press and people would talk bad about my family or something like that, I would get really upset, but now it's just not worth my energy.

There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.

Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied.

For Fate has wove the thread of life with pain, And twins ev'n from the birth are Misery and Man!

For certain people, misfortune is a beacon that lights up the dark and baser sides of social life.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!