Quotes About Adversity

Life is always full of drama and challenges, but you don't have to overreact to any of it if you choose not to.

Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.

It's probably been the worst three months of my life.

Life can very genuinely and realistically pile things on. It doesn't dole out the heartache and pain, or joy, perfectly.

I think skateboarding is hugely challenging - it teaches you self-confidence, it teaches you self-motivation, and it can be something that helps you throughout your life.

[Languages] became a tool that served me my whole life.

Just like a caravan of camels walking in the desert, be durable against the adversities of life and walk with decisive steps.

The answer doesn't lie in learning how to protect ourselves from life-it lies in learning how to become strong enough to let a bit more of it in.

People relate to fighters so much because fighting reflects life.

The only thing tragedy gives us is the opportunity to rebuild our life.

Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down.

Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.

I realized this is what God has dealt me, and I should be thankful considering all that's happened to me in my life, but MS caused the movies to stop - stop dead - and I miss it.

Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald.

I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.

Close scrutiny will show that most of these everyday socalled "crisis situations" are not life-or-death matters at all, but opportunities to either advance, or stay where you are.

Life is like fording a river, stepping from one slippery stone to another, and you must rejoice every time you don't lose your balance, and learn to laugh at all the times you do.

You always have to finish what you start and I learned that some of life's greatest lessons come with disappointment.

When you perceive that problems serve a purpose in your life, you will recognize that problems are opportunities in disguise.

Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.

I believe that illness has led me to a life of gratitude, so I consider Lyme disease at this point in my life to be a blessing in disguise.

No one really has a bad life. Not even a bad day. Just bad moments.

Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.

The things we overcome in life really become our strengths.