Quotes About Adversity

Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.

When adversities flow, then love ebbs; but friendship standeth stiffly in storms.

Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money... but lots of love.

Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

Saving New York City from bankruptcy is like making love to a gorilla. You don't stop when you're tired; you stop when he's tired.

Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter's oven?

Disappointment is often the salt of life.

I don't think of them as teenage songs. The things that happen to you in high school are the same things that happen your entire life. You can fall in love at 60; you can get rejected at 80.

They say what doesn't kill the soul will make you stronger, but you can't be a stone-hearted man.

You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.

Pressure... I love it.

I lost my childhood. I didn't play football or video games. Or have birthdays or the love of a family.

I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.

We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again.

Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident the art of losing's not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down

Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.

I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.

I love watching people get hit in the crotch. But only if they get back up. If their teeth are bleeding, if they're really hurt, if an ambulance has to come, I'm not laughing.

I love football in the rain. That is what it's all about.

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.