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Quotes About Adversity

No matter what happens in life, never lose sight of who you are.
~ Yanni
If you don't pass through anything in life, you can't be anything.
~ Matthew Ashimolowo
Breathe. It's only a bad day not a bad life.
~ Ashley Purdy
My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well.
~ Yanni
What an awful thing life is, isn't it? It's like soup with lots of hairs floating on the surface. You have to eat it nevertheless.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Hang on to this with your life: "In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."
~ Albert Mohler
Once you learn to remain calm under the stressful circumstances of a fight, you will have no trouble remaining calm under the stressful circumstances of life.
~ Ryron Gracie
Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
~ Andrew Vachss
In life, the things that go wrong are often the very things that lead to other things going right.
~ Arianna Huffington
Every blunder behind us is giving a cheer for us, and only for those who were willing to fail are the dangers and splendors of life.
~ Carl Sandburg
You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Always stay true to yourself. Some people will like it, some people won't. Life goes on.
~ Carmelo Anthony
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Keep calm and carry on.
~ Winston Churchill
If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.
~ Nathaniel Branden
Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
~ Mario Puzo, The Godfather
Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.
~ Thomas Sowell
If we continue at this leisurly pace, we will have to pass Russian customs when we land on the moon.
~ Wernher von Braun
Life isn't how you survive the thunderstorm, but how you dance in the rain.
~ Adam Young
I really want people to understand that nobody is perfect and that things happen in life beyond our control.
~ Lil' Kim
It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.
~ Margaret Cho
I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive.
~ Joan Rivers
Life is tough pilgrim, it is even tougher if you're stupid
~ John Wayne
Life is a mixture of light and shadow, calm and storm, and it's all good.
~ Susan W. Krebs