Quotes About Adversity

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it

It is only when one has lost all things, that one knows that one possesses it

But I am bound upon a wheel of fire, that mine own tears do scald like moulten lead.

It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

It is singularity which often makes the worst part of our suffering, as it always does of our conduct.

I know I'm going to blow one day. My life is doomed the way it is. I have no future.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content

My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a b

The factories, the jails, the drunken days and nights, the hospitals have weakened and shaken me like a mouse in the mouth of a hip-cat: life.- from an Aug. 1965 letter to Jim Roman "On Cats

It is desirable that a man live in all respects so simply and preparedly that if an enemy take the town... he can walk out the gate empty-handed and without anxiety.

There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.

Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

Winning is great but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

Fix your course to a star and you can navigate through any storm

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn't matter how many times you fall - it matters how many times you get back up.

It was a confusing time in my life, a really bad day at the office.

I've had an incredible life with a lot of triumphs, my share of heartbreak, and some pretty amazing experiences.

It's amazing to me that we live in such a wonderful country where anyone can have a problem in life and get up, dust themselves off and start all over again.