Quotes About Adversity

The thing about courage is it's something that we have to learn and relearn our whole lives. It's not just in you, it's in every choice we make every day.

When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself.

You can't avoid pain in life. It's how you handle pain, that's what defines you.

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.

In the game of life, it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

Life is a challenge that you need. There's things in life that are going to throw you into the ground, but if you learn how to get up, that means you are not a quitter.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

If you do what is easy, your life will be hard

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.

When life hands you lemons make lemonade. Then find someone who's life gave them Tequila and have a party.

The path of my life is strewn with cow pats from the devil's own satanic herd!

It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.

Because nobody goes through life without a scar.

You've never lived until you've almost died. For those who have fought for it, life has a flavor the protected shall never know.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult for us.

You go through life in a series of peaks and valleys.

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

What defines you as a person is not the life you were born in to, but what you made of it.

If you don't have any enemies in life you have never stood up for anything.

Everybody is going to have a point in their life when they can't see any brightness at the end of the tunnel…but there always is…you just have to keep on fighting.