Quotes About Adversity

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure the difficult one

Boards, don't hit back. ~Bruce Lee

Adversity causes the mind to think properly. — In a time when everything goes well, my mind is pampered with enjoyment, possessiveness, etc. Only in times of adversity, privation, or mishap, does my mind function and think properly of my state. This close examination of self strengthens my mind and leads me to understand and be understood.

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Vale más tener una cicatriz por valiente que la piel intacta por cobarde.

The spirit is strengthened in sorrow. — Happiness is good for the body, but sorrow strengthens the spirit.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above.

One day we'll look back on this, and it will all seem funny

With a boulder on my shoulder Feeling kinda older, I tripped the merry-go-round.

The tree sprouts, its branches thicken, mature, bloom. It is scarred by lightning, shaken by thunder, sickness, human events and God's hand. Drawn black, it grows itself back toward light, rising higher toward heaven while thrusting itself deeper, more firmly, into the earth. Its history and memory retained, its presence felt.

Remember, people, a spike is a passing thing, but a lawsuit you always have with you. Over.

I've always had confidence. Before I was famous, that confidence got me into trouble. After I got famous, it just got me into more trouble.

Freud's prescription is that only by struggling courageously against what seem like overwhelming odds can man succeed in wringing meaning out of his existence.

A scandal is nothing more than a revelation of the humanity of our heroes.

When one door closes, another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which opens for us. - Alexander Graham Bell

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them. -Bono

Never forget what you learned in the light when you are in the dark.

Scott, if your life had a face, I would punch it. I would punch your life in the face.

Just when it felt like you were getting ahead of the game a little, some damn crisis or other would come along to bring you right back to square one.

our fate has already been decided for us, the only thing we can do is stand strong and face our destiny head on

In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it!

Pride is holding your head up high when everyone around you has theirs bowed. Courage is what makes you do it.