Quotes About Adversity

Life is very hard, isn't it? It does kill you, after all.

Life is a pressure cooker and whether you remain serene or become stressed-out depends on how you handle that pressure.

If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.

Life is like college; may I graduate and earn some honors.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life.

Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'

Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.

The most important thing in life is not to capitalize on your successes-any fool can do that. The really important thing is to profit from your mistakes.

Happiness or sorrow- whatever befalls you, walk on untouched, unattached.

Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

When all the blandishments of life are gone, The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

I've resolved so many things in my life. I like the idea of showing that you can go through a lot and still be on your feet, still be working, and still be positive about life.

... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.

Half of life is up - the other half is dealing with it.

It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life.

Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves.

Even if security from the cradle to the grave could eliminate [all] the risks of life, it would [still] be a dead hand on the creative spirit of the American people.

I had to fight my whole life to break out of my circumstances. That's just part of my makeup.

I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

Seems like every time life starts straightening itself out, something's gotta go and happen.

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever.