Quotes About Adversity

Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

At the age of five she has already come to terms with one of the life's harshest lessons: that the world isn't fair.

Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options

Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other people wouldn't let him.

It is interesting to note that life never leaves us stranded. If life hands us a problem, it hands us also the abilities with which to meet the problem.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Give thanks for all that shows up in your life including the stuff that you perceive to be negative, the things that you wish wouldn't have happened. Don't take anything forgranted.

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

Life is not as idle ore, But iron dug from central gloom, And heated hot with burning fears, And dipt in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd with the shocks of doom, To shape and use.

This is good, life must continue, we are fighting barbarians, but we must remain human.

When life gives you lemons, throw them back.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

If there is one thing in life that I have learned about life it is... it goes on.

Ten percent of life is what happens; the other 90 percent is what you do about it.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

May the pain you have known and the conflict you have experienced give you the strength to walk through life facing each new situation with courage and optimism.

If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.

I try not to get too emotional, whether it's going really well or going really bad, i always try to stay even keel -- which is great for golf, but it isn't always great for life.