Quotes About Adversity

I like to see life with its teeth out.

Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment.

There are days when it takes all you've got just to keep up with the losers.

You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.

My life is what it is, and I can't change it. I can change the future, but I can't do anything about the past.

Life to me is a bit of a (Brothers) Grimm fairy tale.

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

Good things might happen in your life or bad things might happen, sometimes terrible things, but no matter what happens, your soul is your own. And no one and nothing can stop you.

The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.

Life is not the mountaintops, it's the walking in between.

When life gets you down, make a comforter!

To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.

Thanks to his willingness to face me, my life takes shape, my path evolves.

In this life you can take poverty, you can take failure, you can take the big things; it's the little griefs that destroy you inside.

I've been around so long and no matter if I've done good things or bad things, or my personal life has been good or bad, the fans have always stuck with me.

Anything I wanted to do and achieve has not been influential in my life, but my failures have.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

Problems are a major part of life. Don't whine about why you always have problems…get on with the solving. Take it from someone who has been there–the solving gets easier as you go along.

Where life is more terrible than death, it is then the truest valor to dare to live.

Of course, it's always bad to lose, of course it's always a hardship when you lose to yesterday's miners or yesterday's tractor drivers. But life is life. It'll surely go on.

When life hands you lemons, you make lemonade. But when life hands you hurricanes, you go surfing.

My life owes me. Like an overdose, I'm slowly Drifting into the arms of trouble, then trouble holds me

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.