Quotes About Adversity

Be still my heart; thou hast known worse than this.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.

I've seen a lot in my life. I've seen a lot of winning. I've seen a lot of testing times. I think when you're tested, you really find out what you're made of.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

Sure, I suffered a lot. But it's not like the end of the world and it's not who I am. I lead quite a pleasant life and I'm able to divorce a perceived reality from my actual experience of life.

The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

The Bible does not tell us that life in this world will be fair. Evil and sin are not Victorian gentlemen; they do not play fair.

If life gives you lemons, don't settle for simply making lemonade - make a glorious scene at a lemonade stand.

Fighting is like life. You can do everything to a tee. You can show up and fail. That's no reason to quit.

That is life... to begin again when everything is lost!

Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

The world is a grindstone and life is your nose

Life is like that. Some days are diamonds and some days are stones.

Because you are defined not by life's imperfect moments, but by your reaction to them. And because there is joy in embracing - rather than running from - the utter absurdity of life.

Life is not easy for any for us.

There are no mistakes in life, just learning opportunities.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

You have no control over the hand that life deals you, but how you play that hand is entirely up to you.

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.