Quotes About Adversity

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

Come ye trials and challanges; come life's big waves, for I am ready?

Whenever somebody comes up with a good idea, there's somebody else who has never had a good idea in his life who stands up and says, "Oh, you can't do that..."

The worst day of my political life was when President George W. Bush signed McCain-Feingold into law.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.

It doesn't matter how you grew up, or what you've struggled with in life - your mind is unscathed by any circumstance you've yet to live... and it's phenomenally powerful.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

I've always been a black sheep. That's a hard thing to be until you find your calling in life. I was bullied a lot at school, probably because I was perceived to be different from everyone else.

If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.

We're all victims of what life deals out. It's how we handle it that's important.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.

Cancer has changed, and so have I. Life goes on, even becomes normal again. I refused to let cancer wreck my party. There are just too many cool things to do and plan and live for.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw

Sometimes life, will get you down, break your heart, steal your crown.

Old Japanese saying, live scorpion in pants makes life interesting.

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.

I've been through a lot in life, and had some ups and downs. It's what's led me to this day.