Quotes About Adversity

Life deals you a lot lessons, some people learn from it, some people don't.

In the darkest times of your life, your praise to God should be the loudest. Let the enemy know you're not afraid of the dark.

If you have never failed, you have never tried anything new.

Life is never completely without its challenges.

The fight life, that was easy. This is a battle I have every day.

Never let life's hardships disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.

At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things in our culture.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

Through my life, [there have been] a lot of devils and a lot of situations, so I'm just goin' hard, maintaining, regardless of what people got to say about Ace Hood.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.

The school of life offers some difficult courses, but it is in the difficult class that one learns the most.

What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.

You asked me if I ever stood up for anything. Yeah, I stood up for my life.

Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective.

Never skip a step. Skip a step, you'll find five more new ones waiting ahead of you.

Apparently we'd been richer than we thought, to suffer such continual diminishment and still be alive.

Life is still hard, but it is fair, and there is more joy in it that doesn't feast on heartache.

Perhaps there is no shame in this, perhaps I can bear this, fight this. To give in but not give up. And projected back out behind him, toward the sea, Saul unable to say the name, just three simple words that seemed so inadequate, and yet they were all he had left to use.

The way back was harder, and no getting around that-no truth I learned struggling back, except that life is struggle. It placed me in some gray realm beyond, a landscape of exertion and anguish. I had nothing left to give, and yet still I had something left it give.

Truth crushed to the earth is truth still and like a seed will rise again.

Change usually begins with someone feeling a level of desperation that leads him or her to take constructive risks and experiment with alternative ways of being that previously felt inaccessible.