Quotes About Adversity

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees

No matter your obstacles, live a happy life.

The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.

Life's a university that'll teach you lessons, regardless of your desire to pass the "class" or not, there is always something else to learn

Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

Embrace the struggle and let it make you stronger. It won't last forever.

A well-developed sense of humor is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life.

Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it

As life becomes harder and more threatening, it also becomes richer, because the fewer expectations we have, the more good things of life become unexpected gifts that we accept with gratitude.

Life can be wildly tragic at times, and I've had my share. But whatever happens to you, you have to keep a slightly comic attitude. In the final analysis, you have got not to forget to laugh.

Life itself is always a trial. In training, you must test and polish yourself in order to face the great challenges of life.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from your mistakes and getting back up when life has knocked you down.

Everyone goes with the flow... but the one who goes against the flow becomes someone remarkable in life.

You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

All my life I've been a lady bruiser, a wrong chooser, school refuser, drug abuser, born loser; clothes bummy, nose runny, it wasn't funny