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Quotes About Adversity

The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death.
~ Swami Vivekananda
In the dark days of your life, you will need the wings of hope to continue flying.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Show business is made up of disappointments, and it's through life's disappointments that you grow.
~ Minnie Pearl
Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
~ Nancy Mitford
Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.
~ Nic Pizzolatto
Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.
~ Nido R Qubein
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
When there is no turning back, then we should concern ourselves only with the best way of going forward.
~ Paulo Coelho
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
~ Plato
I just know that the one thing that we all have in common is challenges. No one lives a challenge free life.
~ Octavia Spencer
Life's not all beer and skittles
~ Radclyffe Hall
What matters in life is not so much what happens to us, but what happens in us
~ Rick Warren
You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.
~ Rob Lowe
If you have never failed you have never lived.
~ Abraham Lincoln
He who would live must fight. He who doesn't wish to fight in this world, where permanent struggle is the law of life, has not the right to exist.
~ Adolf Hitler
Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
~ Albert Bandura
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
~ Albert Camus
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
~ Amy Poehler
Life is confusing. We're all just trying to get on with it, that's all.
~ Art Carney
In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.
~ Bear Bryant
I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.
~ Bear Grylls
The greatest danger in life is not taking chances. There are so many negative people wanting to grind you down, but you can't let them. If people say you are mad, you know you're on the right track.
~ Brian Blessed
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
~ George Eliot
A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.
~ Janet Malcolm