Quotes About Adversity

When things fall apart, consider the possibility that life knocked it down on purpose. Not to bully you, or to punish you, but to prompt you to build something that better suits your personality and your purpose. Sometimes things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Nobody gets through life without losing someone they love, someone they need, or something they thought was meant to be. But it is these losses that make us stronger and eventually move us toward future opportunities.

Everything happens for a reason...there is a lesson to be learned with everything that happens.

To succeed in your life, you need these three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone...

When life gets hard and you want to give up, remember that life is full of ups and downs, and without the downs, the ups would mean nothing.

Life can hit you from all directions but how fast you get up and recover shows just how strong of a person you are.

Don't let haters bring you down. Let your haters become your motivators.

The best stories aren't about people with a nice past. There about people who SURVIVED a bad past, lived their dream and had a happy ending.

Sometimes life gives you the test before you've had time to learn the lesson

Life is a difficult game of circumstances, sometimes you feel you are winning and sometimes you blame yourself for loosing over circumstances beyond your control.

Life teaches us the greatest lessons and gives us the best gifts. We may not have control over all the tests, but you can either let the lesson devour or empower you.

Without bad days, how would you be able to know what a good day is like? So be grateful about your bad day, it means that a good day is just around the corner.

For every high there is a low, every good a bad, every action a reaction. To experience it is living, to accept is adult, to learn & rise above is to be strong.

We all have difficult times. We can view them as challenges, work through them and learn valuable lessons through our past mistake or allow struggles become overwhelming, just give up and learn nothing.

I've learned a lot this year.I've learned that things don't always turn out the way you planned it, or the way you think they should. And I've learned that there are things that go wrong that don't always get fixed or get put back together the way they were before. I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

FORGET the PEOPLE that make you sad... Don't let them affect you... But NEVER FORGET... WHAT they TAUGHT you... The choices you make, the struggles you face, prepare you for life...

You have three choices in life. Give up. Give in. Or Give it your all. So remember that falling down is part of life and picking yourself up is part of living!

Sometimes things go wrong only to teach us what is right...it is up to us to know the difference and make the right choice after the fact!

I don't regret my mistakes because if I hadn't made them I wouldn't know how to make things right.

Everything comes in either a blessing or a lesson. Nothing is wasted.

Lesson without pain is meaningless, but once you've withstood and overcome it, you will gain a heart that is stronger than everything else.

Worry can't change anything, except one thing. It changes your life to be more complicated.

Sometimes you have to sink, in order to understand what it means to rise. You must fall apart, to understand what it means when you are whole. Experience loss in order to truly appreciate what you have. Be in the grasp of true despair, to remember what it means to be happy. Go through Hell in order to find your way to Heaven.

Time always changes everything. Sometimes it changes things to be worse, but make sure it changes you to be better.