Quotes About Adversity

Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

My life is not easy, but it's awesome.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

No matter what you have gone through in your youth, it is about who you choose to be in life. You can define your own destiny. You can be stronger than a very difficult past and overcome it.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

When I lost my way, and When the road was too long, I was muttering to myself. Life is just that way.

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.

Life is made up of challenges that cannot be solved but only accepted.

My life has always been a series of challenges and I'm psychologically-prepared but this is the biggest challenge of my life.

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

I'm not fighting for justice. I am not fighting for freedom. I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

Winning is often simply getting up off the ground one more time than your opponent.

Bad things happen to good people all the time. It sucks. It's not fair but then much of life isn't fair. It's how you live that matters. It's how you deal with the bumps in the road.

When you give a team life, give a team confidence, anything can happen in a Game 7.

Definition of a victim: a person to whom life happens.

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If you can wear the hard times of your life as furrows on your brow, you can wear the good times as a twinkle in your eye.

The Knowledge Rule 2080: From maggots to men, the world is a corner bully. Better you knuckle up and go for yours than have to bow your head and tuck your chain.

I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.

You have to have a sense of humor about life to get through it.