Quotes About Adversity

Every problem has a solution, although it may not be the outcome that was originally hoped for or expected.

Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.

I may be revered or defamed and decried; But I tried to live my life right.

Remember, I'm the kind of kid who used to get stuffed into a locker by school bullies. I've never felt like I'm a big star at any level of my life.

There is much meaning in the word endure. For example, when dealing with unstable human feelings and uneven pathways in life, without endurance to hold you up, you may fall into a pit in the brush.

Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.

When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.

What happens to us in life is less important; the real question can be whether or not we use the experience to grow.

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

Ive been fortunate to be short my entire life. Theres only one position Ive ever had to play, and thats point guard. So Ive always had to be that leader. And that was my job: you know, to talk.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Towns oftener swamp one than carry one out onto the big ocean of life.

Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster.

It has been an interesting road, but I wouldn't trade any of it for the world, because I feel like all of those instances in my life I felt molded me and strengthened me and made me who I am.

There are forces in life working for you and against you. One must distinguish the beneficial forces from the malevolent ones and choose correctly between them.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

It is not where you start out in life that counts the most, it is how you choose to face it.

Life is a warfare against the malice of others.