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Quotes About Adversity

All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
~ E. W. Howe
Life's hard in Haiti right now. And the hardest thing is that the future does not lie with one person.
~ Edwidge Danticat
Perseverance is not a passive submission to circumstances-it is a strong and active response to the difficult events of life.
~ Elizabeth George
I think everything happens for a reason and all the things that happened to me - good, bad - I'm glad they did. It's made me ready for life, for adulthood.
~ Freddy Adu
Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
Experience is a grindstone; and it is lucky for us, if we can get brightened by it, and not ground.
~ Josh Billings
I've been dealing with being overlooked my whole life.
~ LaDainian Tomlinson
What is most important when the time comes - and it always will - is to live your life with the coldness of a wolf.
~ Mark Rowlands
Like flowers in a storm, life is full of goodbyes
~ Masuji Ibuse
if you go through life looking for insults, you may be comfortably assured of finding them.
~ Ngaio Marsh
So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
~ Oprah Winfrey
...I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life!
~ Oprah Winfrey
It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.
~ Freeman Dyson
Life is that which must overcome itself again and again
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is hard but being stupid makes it harder.
~ George V. Higgins
My life had made me funny, and cancer wasn't going to change that.
~ Gilda Radner
Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
What really counts in life is the quiet meeting of every difficulty with the determination to get out of it all the good there is.
~ Helen Keller
I believe these words came from the Pokemon movie. Life can be a challenge. Life can seem impossible. It's never easy when there's so much on the line.
~ Herman Cain
Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
~ Jack Nicklaus
I want people to know that there's gonna be a bad part in your life and you have to overcome it to get to the good.
~ Jc Caylen
Girls must be thwarted early in life.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
~ Jeff Bridges
You don't feel sorry for yourself, you get on with life. (after not being picked starting goalie)
~ Jens Lehmann