Quotes About Adversity

Though Marius has been poor for the past five years, he has not known real misery.

A crap upbringing doesn't make someone weak, it makes them strong or how else could they get through it.

You don't beat a monster by becoming one yourself.

It isn't fair, the way some of us have gotten so screwed by life.

Kid, you're going to get everything you want out of life. Once you get past the parts that suck.

We never had it as rough as the kids have it today. Look at the price of a gallon of gas or a piece of real estate or a college education.

Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.

You have to see every potential roadblock as an opportunity and a benefit.

The odds are never in our favour.

If he wants me broken then I will have to be whole.

Ako ?ovek koji ne zna da pliva izgubi mir, utopi?e se.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.

the world is a great gymnasium where we came to make ourselves strong.

This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

We are like the caterpillar which takes the thread out of his own body and of that makes the cocoon, and behold, he is caught.

Let miseries come in millions of rivers and happiness in hundreds! I am no slave to misery! I am no slave to happiness!

For all of us in this world life is a continuous fight.

I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.

I shouldn't even be here, so if I'm here, I better do something good.

Something good always comes from something bad.

Something good comes out of every crisis.

The good part about being a pessimist is, when something bad happens, you're never really devastated by it. And when something good happens, it's such a bonus.

How many stories do you know about people cooped up in places because of deep snowfall? How many stories where something good happens to those people?