Quotes About Adversity

Three things have helped me successfully go through the ordeals of life -- an understanding husband, a good analyst and millions of dollars.

When life closes a door, God opens a window.

I went to the University of Life and was chucked out.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

The message I'm trying to say is that I'm tough because of life experience.

When life gives you lemons....they could really be oranges.

Our whole life is solving puzzles.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

I've seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it's all gone wrong. That's when we define ourselves.

No one's ever completely broken. It's just a matter of how much has to fall apart before the ember of life is exposed to air.

A ship should not be held by a single anchor; neither should life depend upon a single hope.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving.

Life wouldn't be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome.

Life is tough, and it's really tough when you're stupid.

Life wasn't meant to be easy.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

A life without problems would be a barren existence, without the opportunity for spiritual growth.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.

If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.