Quotes About Adversity

The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.

Life isn't about winning it's about what you learn and how much you can grow.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Everyday life inspires me, the situations that we all find ourselves in at one time or another.

You take the thing that is the worst thing that could have happened to you, the worst challenge in your life, and you turn it into fuel. You don't give up. And that's what Gotham is about.

Growing up, I didn't dream of being nothing, of living in the ghetto my whole life. I wanted to get out.

I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.

People have doubted me and criticized me my whole life, and that's why I'm the way I am.

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake. You expect that when your teammates are doing their jobs, so you got to compartmentalize and do your job.

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight.

Sooner or later, everyone's story has an unfortunate event or two...The solution, of course, is to stay as far away from the world as possible and lead a safe, simple life.

We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Life always gets harder towards the summit - the cold increases, responsibility increases

All my life, I've been a type 1 diabetic. I've always taken life day by day.

A life with difficult relationships, filled with obstacles and losses, presents the most opportunity for the soul's growth.

Voyager upon life's sea, To yourself be true, And whate'er your lot may be, Paddle your own canoe.

Life's full of tricky snakes and ladders.

Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

When everything seems to go wrong, with peace of heart, you can press on. With peace of heart, you can press on, whatever life brings.