Quotes About Adversity

I've been a survivor my whole life...if I survived the Marines, I can survive Muhammad Ali.

People try to make a Greek tragedy of my life, and they can't do it. I'm too happy.

Life feels like a game of Snakes and Ladders, but without any ladders.

My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

Life will not break your heart. It'll crush it.

Get used to it. Life doesn't give, it takes. Anything worth having is worth fighting for.

No one has ever said that life is to be easy. Only that it is to be lived.

Everyone has a worst time in their life. There's always a worse time. We are all either in a crisis, coming to one or coming out of one.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

There are no laurels in life, just new challenges.

I don't think I'm going to like it at all. I think it's going to hurt. But after the hurt I think maybe something good and strong and beautiful will come out of it.

There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.

There is no security in life, only opportunity.

Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

In life, as in Chess, ones own Pawns block ones way. A mans very wealth, ease, leisure, children, books, which should help him to win, more often checkmate him

What makes things exciting in life is to overcome your challenges and get creative and think outside of the box.

No matter whether a person belongs to the upper ranks or the lower, if he has not put his life on the line at least once he has cause for shame.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Life is too short to nurse one's misery. Hurry across the lowlands so that you may spend more time on the mountain tops.

My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go.

I've learned... That life is tough, but I'm tougher.

Life is a game, where either you lose or you learn.