Quotes About Adversity

I met a lot of hard-boiled eggs in my life, but you - you're twenty minutes.

Life is going to present you with tons of problems, it's what you do about them that matters.

The road of rock and roll (much like life) is littered with broken dreams and death. And it's our job to overcome these and to survive.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.

Whatever pain and suffering you've experienced in your life has been a blessing at least in this one regard: you now know some true things that you couldn't have learned any other way.

I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.

It is true that I have had heartache and tragedy in my life. These are things none of us avoids. Suffering is the price of being alive.

Life isn't a straightforward climb up the ladder. It can take a few slips to really gain perspective.

The last thing I would have ever expected to happen to me in my life would be that, in fact, I would be accused of doing something wrong and maybe even something criminal.

Depression cannot be overcome by listing a series of good things in one's life, any more than a broken foot can be healed by thinking about all the other bones you have that aren't broken.

Im in my mid-30s, Ive won an Oscar, I have four children. You figure out if my deafness has adversely affected my life.

Life is a hailstorm of distractions. It's not the monster that stops us but the mosquito.

Everything that I've ever been able to accomplish in skating and in life has come out of adversity and perseverance.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

It is the breaking of life that produces the blessing of life.

No matter what grief or loss takes place, most of life flows on all around us, as though nothing's changed. At some point in our sorrow, we each make a choice to sink or swim. There's no alternative.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Last year we said, 'Things can't go on like this', and they didn't, they got worse.

You never know what life has in store for you, but I believe there are certain things one is meant to go through

Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

A free ride is life's most difficult journey.

I have to pick myself up every day and say, 'The show must go on,' meaning life as I know it must go on, whatever the obstacle is, I know I can handle it, and I can get through it.