Quotes About Adversity

Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

Life is like an elevator, a lot of ups and downs. People pushing your buttons and getting jerked around.

To be truly challenging, a voyage, like a life, must rest on a firm foundation of financial unrest.

The drink? Yes, I've had tough times in my life, especially the last year, regarding my ex-wife, my kids, I nearly broke my neck, I was on death row with pneumonia.

Life never forgives weaknesses.

Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways.

The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.

Instead of weeping when a tragedy occurs in a songbird's life, it sings away its grief. I believe we could well follow the pattern of our feathered friends.

Life is a funny thing, the minute you think you've got everything figured out something comes along and turns it all upside down.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Sports is human life in microcosm.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

If you quit every time things don't go your way, then you'll be quitting all through your life.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

Greatness is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable, and undeserved.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, "I'm taking it one day at a time." Yes, so is everybody. Because that's how time works.

The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.

What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.

I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.