Quotes About Adversity

Whether you're rich or poor, life's still cold-blooded.

It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.

Alas, not all things in life are easy; Even man struggles to be human.

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.

To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated.

Boxing is real easy. Life is much harder.

It is funny you know, you spend 12 years of your life learning about things and about life, but they never really tell you how hard life really is.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.

For him , life was a coin that had disaster on one side and waiting for disaster on the other

It's a wonderful metaphor, catching a wave, for how you can look at other challenges in your life.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and *look* for trouble.

In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt.

Don't just give up, Hachiko. Life is about getting knocked down over and over, but still getting up each time. If you keep getting up, you win.

He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad; his countenance unconquered.

If your ride through life is not as smooth as you would like it to be, blaming the road may not be the answer.

Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.

Life is a lone wolf, scratching out a living with teeth and claws and a heart of stone.

I've struggled in my life. I've had hard times, but I kept pressing on.

You've got to keep fighting; you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.

Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own submerged inner resources. The trials we endure can and should introduce us to our strengths.