Quotes About Adversity

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them.

Those who get lost on the way to school will never find their way through life.

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

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

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?

Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder; the coldness increases, responsibility increases.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.

Life is a series of experiences, each of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Life is just a bowl of pits.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.