Quotes About Adversity

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.

The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

I am having an out-of-money experience.

When fortune turns against you, even jelly breaks your teeth.

The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.

Do not fall before you are pushed.

Life is like riding a bicycle; we can keep from falling if we keep moving. Only a few trick-riders can stand still and not tumble.

You want to run out in front, prepare to be tripped from behind.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

Broken tools can be replaced. You can't.

No one help you in our difficult times. Nowadays remember that we should start learning how to fight alone.

Things don't always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that's what I've done – I've tried to keep my composure, even when things aren't going the way I'd like.

Let them hate. Just make sure they spell your name right.

You just keep a positive attitude no matter what comes in your way – challenges, roadblocks – don't let it faze you, and you can overcome anything.

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

Life is 100% what happens to me and 90% of how react to it.

Life breaks all of us sometimes…but…some grow strong at broken places.

Nobody can get across now! We'll have to stay here days and days, and we've got nothing to eat, and we'll freeze to death at night, and I didn't even tell my dad I was coming here, and I'll get a whipping when I get home!" Tom smiled thinly and tried to make a joke out of it. "I thought you were going to freeze to death," he said.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

Resistance wears us down and dims our light

Strength is forged out of struggle

The lessons in life are life

The storms in life are there to help us grow, washing away the old, clearing a path for the new, teaching us strength, teaching us wisdom. The storms in life are not obstacles to life. The storms in life are life.

You said, 'Life is a tragedy, but its meaning lies in how we face the tragedy.