Quotes About Adversity

One happiness scatters a thousand sorrows.

Ups and downs. Victories and defeats. Sadness and happiness. That's the best kind of life.

"When calamity comes, the wicked are brought down, but even in death the righteous have a refuge."

"The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere."

"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters."

"The more people love you, the more there's going to be people that hate you."

"No matter the number of times you fail you must be determined to succeed. You must not lose hope. Don't stop in your storm. Don't give up so easily."

Sometimes there is no time to wait for the sea to calm down! If you have to reach your target, let your voyage start and let the storm be your path!

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

You can't calm the storm…so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.

Learn to get comfortable with being uncomfortable.

The cost of failure is…learning.

Failure is a teacher.

I am thankful to all who said no to me. It is because of them that I'm doing it myself.

10. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

"We are continually faced with great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvable problems."

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

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

I think that life is difficult. People have challenges. Family members get sick, people get older, you don't always get the job or the promotion that you want. You have conflicts in your life. And really, life is about your resilience and your ability to go through your life and all of the ups and downs with a positive attitude.

13. I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.

6. All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

There are times you can't really see or even feel how sweet life can be. Hopefully its mountains will be higher than its valleys are deep. I know things that are broken can be fixed. Take the punch if you have to, hit the canvas and then get up again. Life is worth it.

Your personal life, your professional life, and your creative life are all intertwined. I went through a few very difficult years where I felt like a failure. But it was actually really important for me to go through that. Struggle, for me, is the most inspirational thing in the world at the end of the day ~ as long as you treat it that way.

Anyone can given up; It's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart. That's true strength.