Quotes About Adversity

It's definitely the hardest tackle I've taken in my life but I'm still breathing and that's a good sign.

When I got out of high school, I wanted to be an actor but was getting a lot of rejections. I was getting rejected by life. My mother, God rest her soul, told me not to quit.

If I don't give up in the ring, I don't give up in life... I try to live my life the same way.

When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose.

Some accidents there are in life that a little folly is necessary to help us out of.

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.

Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

Sometimes things happen to people and they're not equipped to deal with them.

If you don't learn to laugh at life it'll surely kill you, that I know.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Even if it's not your ideal life, you can always choose it. No matter what your life is, choosing it changes everything.

I don't think I've had a more miserable life than a lot of people. I think I've had a pretty lucky life.

I've got to live my life. Bad things happen. I can't be sitting here worrying about it.

Life is hard, and then you die.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.