Quotes About Adversity

Possibly because I've lived so much of my life in difficult circumstances, I think I have a more profound understanding of life.

If you can't do anything about it, laugh like hell.

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.

If you knew you had to fight for your life tomorrow, would you change your training today?

As long as you don't make waves, ripples, life seems easy. But that's condemning yourself to impotence and death before you are dead.

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

The great test of life is ... not to endure storms, but to choose the right while they rage.

I've known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don't ask quarters.

Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.

I'm doing this for the kid who truly leads a 'thug life' and thinks it's HOPELESS.

For thugs from the ghetto, violence is a way of life - it's what helps you survive.

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.

Life does not forgive weakness.

One of the most fascinating lessons I've absorbed about life is that the struggle is good.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.

There's no room in my life for feeling sorry for myself.

The storms of life can be used for good in our lives if we let them drive our spirits higher and closer to God.

What is difficult in training will become easy in a battle

My father left me with a saying that I've carried my entire life and tried to pass on to our kids: 'Tough times don't last, tough people do,'

The sermon of your life in tough times ministers to people more powerfully than the most eloquent speaker.

Don't wait for the storms of your life to pass. Learn to dance in the rain.

Once you have perceived that life is very cruel, the only response is to live with as much humanity, humour and freedom as you can.