Quotes About Adversity

I've always been a target. Everyone looks me and says, 'I'm not going to let that Asian kid embarrass me. I'm going to go at him.' That's how it's been my whole life.

Life breaks us all, but you're stronger in the places that were broken. Or you can essentially crumble, give up, and, you know, waste your life.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I try to live what I teach. A lot of things come against us in life, but we should try to find something to be grateful for, and see each day as a gift.

Courage is on display every day, and only the courageous wring the most out of life.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

There are hurdles, there are handicaps, hardships you have to face in life, but you hope for a great future.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was, that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life, problems and terrors.

What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made.

No one's a virgin, life screws us all!

What good is it to live a life that brings pains?

They say that life's a game, & then they take the board away.

A hard life improves the vision.

Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.

Pleasant experiences make life delightful. Painful experiences lead to growth.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends; friendship multiplies blessings and minimizes misfortunes; it is a unique remedy against adversity, and it soothes the soul.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

Tisn't life that matters! 'Tis the courage you bring to it.

Life as a shorty shouldn't be so rough.