Quotes About Adversity

I think it's important for people to know that bad things do happen to good people and that life can throw a serious curveball at even the most cautious and "prepared" people out there.

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

When you're scared, when you're hanging on, when life is hurting you, then you're going to see what you're really made of.

The longer the life the more the offense, the more the offense the more the pain, the more the pain the less the defense and the less the defense the less the gain.

The ability to find meaning in the most difficult times, I think, is one of the most important skills of life.

Problems are the gifts that make us dig out and figure out who we are, what we're made for, and what we're responsible to give back to life.

When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.

What if rather than being disheartened by the ambiguity, the uncertainty of life, we accepted it and relaxed into it?

Anything that becomes an obstacle in life is only an opportunity to learn and it's the same in any profession I think.

Life is, I think, a blunder and a shame.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

Something horrible happens and I try to make it funny. It's really a tortured life. You go to a salsa bar, at your local burrito stand, and you know, you think "how can you make a joke about this?"

You can't play the role of a victim all your life without becoming one in the end.

When you realize that life isn't fair, you don't act out, you don't get overly wasted, you don't get self-indulgent. You just move forward.

I don't know anybody's road who's been paved perfectly for them, there are no manuals, you don't know what life has in store for you.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

I had to overcome challenge after challenge in order to take my life from nothing to living my dreams.

These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.

I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.

Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard

There are no mistakes in life - only lessons. Lessons to be learnt and re-learnt until they are no longer lessons.

Have an anchor so that life doesn't toss you around.

The four most miserable years of my life were my four years in the presidency.

Self-pity is the most negative quality of the human spirit. Difficulties in life are intended to make us better, not bitter.