Quotes About Adversity

Take a deep breath. It's only a bad day, not a bad life...

Even problems do you a favor, they let you know the real friends from fake ones.

Pay attention to the friends that help you when you're down, so you know who to ignore when you get back up.

People who are in quick sand only want to bring you down with them. After all, doesn't misery love company?

If you're going to start a fire you betta be prepared to deal with tha heat and feel tha burns.

I woke up on the wrong side of my life.

It's really sad how one day I'll seem to have everything going right then the next day I'll lose everything so fast.

Those days when you wake up and you just know that it's going to be a bad day.

Love is tough. Love survives through the worst of situations, and thrives through hope. Even when things seem hopeless love will find it's way.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet.

When life gives you a hundred reasons to cry, show life that you have a thousand reasons to smile

No matter how good of a person you are, there will always be someone criticizing you.

It is not so important what deeds we do when times are good, but what good we do in bad times.

I think the most beautiful people are the ones who went to the toughest situations in life but still manage to keep a smile on their face especially when they have a bright personality to go along with the smile.

I think my downfall is being a good person, to the wrong people...but life experiences tell me to keep showing love, in the midst of hate.

What if you're a really good person, but you get into a really, really bad fight and your leg gets gangrene and it has to be amputated. Will it be waiting for you in heaven?

The ultimate measure of man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

A strong woman knows how to keep her life in line. With tears in her eyes, she still manages to say, Nah, I'm fine.

Hide all your problems behind your sweetest smile. Because there is no one to help you out in your problems. You alone have to face it. So face it with smile.

It's the loneliest feeling in the world - to find yourself standing up when everyone else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say what's the matter with her? I know what it feels like. Walking down an empty street, listening to the sound of your own footsteps. Shutters closed, blinds drawn, doors locked against you. And you aren't sure whether you're walking toward something, or if you're just walking away.

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.

Dear life, When I said, 'Can my day get any worse?' it was a rhetorical question not a challenge.