Quotes About Adversity

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.

Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips

I think it's a great thing to have failed in life and then pulled yourself up by the boot straps and actually done something, because then you appreciate it more.

For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.

Sometimes rejection in life is really redirection.

No one's life is a smooth sail; we all come into stormy weather. But it's this adversity - and more specifically our resilience - that makes us strong and successful.

The harder the life, the finer the person.

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

By accepting life's limits and inevitabilities and working with them rather than fighting them, we become free.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

Life is not for the faint of heart.

God won't allow anything happen in your life if it's not for your good.

But life is a great school. It thrashes and bangs and teaches you.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.

Life ain't easy. Terrible things happen to everyone. You have to keep your sense of humor, give something of yourself to others, make friends who are younger than you, learn new things, and have fun.

The great challenges of life appear to us when, and only when, we have everything we need to survive and heal from the experience.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

The world is your oyster. Yes, but in that oyster is the pearl; and to get to the pearl one has to first discard the shell and the flesh.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems and I enjoy that.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.