Quotes About Adversity

When the storms of life strike, it's what happens in you that will determine what happens to you.

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

Life is not unfair. Life is what you make of it.

Failure in life does not matter; the greatest misfortune is standing still.

Some people need flowers, some people need dandelions. It's medicine, it's what you need at that time in your life.

You know, life fractures us all into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that make us stronger.

It's strange. You never start out life with the intention of becoming a bankrupt or an alcoholic or a cheat and a thief. Or a liar.

Values are the shields that you carry throughout life and it protects you from whatever life throws at you.

It's an unavoidable truth. Fear of life closes off more opportunities for us than fear of death ever does.

Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience.

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

Everything that happens to me in my life, be it good or bad, it's all education, and it's important for that to become part of what you do. It all feeds the beast.

When everything is lost, and all seems darkness, then comes the new life and all that is needed.

Life is full of troubles and vexations, that one must either rise above it by means of corrected thoughts, or leave it.

Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh.

There are people who have let the problems of today lead them to conclude that for them life is not the way.

Life can be real tough... you can either learn from your problems, or keep repeating them over and over.

The same wall that keeps out your disappointment also keeps out the sunlight of enriching experiences. So let life touch you. The next touch could be the one that turns your life around.

Everybody, at some point in their life, has fallen down and not felt like getting back up, but you have to, no matter how difficult it is.

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.