Quotes About Adversity

The bear is what we all wrestle with. Everybody has their bear in life. It's about conquering that bear and letting him go.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

One of the lowest points in my life was when I was diagnosed and combated with severe ulcerative colitis which is severe ulcers in you colon that bleed.

The same disappointments in life will chasten and refine one man's spirit, embitter another's.

Life on a lifeboat isn't much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn't be more simple, nor the stakes higher.

Failure is a part of life and you have to learn to deal with it. Failure is something that is part of life's cycle and it's from failure that you gain life experience.

Pain is life. Life is pain.

Remember the great adversity of art or anything else is a hurried life.

Born in a cellar, and living in a garret.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

Life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right, and then suffer for them.

My enemies can take what they want, but my life is mine and so long as I breathe, it has value. I won't ever give up. Not again.

Sometimes life hits you like a brick in the face. Don't give up.

I think everyone has a certain kind of formula in their life. When you deviate from that formula, you're going to fail big or you're gonna win big.

Life, people learned, was not easy. Life was not cake. Life was not a carrot cake.

I had someone very close to me say to me that hopefully I'll have many more ups and downs, not in just my career but in life. If you don't have that, you're not taking enough risks.

It's not what happens to you in life that matters; what matters is how you deal with it!

Everyone is dealing with something. This is life; this is not just a piece of cake.

Broken marriages, conflicts of loyalty, the problems of everyday life fall away as one faces up to [Jeff] Thomson.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

At some stages of your life you will deal with things and at others you are overwhelmed with misery and anxiety.

Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'tis better than many have, for while we've a whole lot of troubles the most of them never occur.