Quotes About Adversity

I don't know why, but life is usually more complicated than the plans that we make.

You know, the benefit in life is to say, 'Maybe you made a mistake, let's dig deep.'

You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed!

Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.

The best people in the world aren't those who never fail - but those who fail and learn something from it. I hope that your goal in life isn't to slide safely into death not having screwed up much.

Others live on in a careless and lukewarm state - not appearing to fill Longfellow's measure: 'Into each life, some rain must fall.'

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us.

It is strange, but true, that the most important turning-points of life often come at the most unexpected times and in the most unexpected ways.

I am not going to let Athens affect the rest of my life.

There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.

Tough times are inevitable in life and in business. But how you compose yourself during those times defines your spirit and will define your future.

Well, gentlemen, life's just one damn thing after another.

If you fall, get back up. That's what life is about.

For most of my life I had operated under a simple schematic of winning and losing, but cancer was teaching me a tolerance for ambiguities.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

To be 26 years old and lose your left heart ventricle was probably the most dramatic thing that's ever happened to me in my life...

Never give up. Take what life throws at you and throw it right back. If life keeps throwing then you have a tennis match going. Learn to like tennis.

There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.

We can't all be happy, we can't all be rich, we can't all be lucky - and it would be so much less fun if we were... There must be the dark background to show up the bright colours.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

They are surely to be esteemed the bravest spirits who, having the clearest sense of both the pains and pleasures of life, do not on that account shrink from danger.

I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

The only time you lose at something is when you don't learn from that experience.