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Quotes About Adversity

This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.
~ Deborah Keenan
Life is what you make of it. You can make it easy on yourself or you can make it hard.
~ Deep Roy
Life is about coming back and mastering how to come back.
~ Donald Trump
Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you
~ Dr. Seuss
Life is not about focusing on the obstacles. It's about how you handle them, and whether you get enlightenment or levity from the way you do it
~ Drew Barrymore
Life was good before I met the monster. After, life was great At least for a little while
~ Ellen Hopkins
A fight is a fight. And life is a fight.
~ Erik Apple
That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'
~ Ernie Banks
As the son of Holocaust survivors, this is life - you're put in a corner, and you have to get out. I believe that you can always get out.
~ Etgar Keret
Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.
~ Evan Esar
The biggest lessons I've learned in life have probably come from a bad situation, from an angry situation, even if I wasn't the one who was angry.
~ Evan Rachel Wood
My whole life has been about changing negatives into positives.
~ Fran Drescher
Im a believer in getting punched in the face. I know it sounds cliched, but to me, fighting is a metaphor for life.
~ Frank Grillo
The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.
~ Frank Herbert
It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one.
~ Alan Moore
If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.
~ Albert Einstein
What is life without its angles of difficulty and defeat, and its tip of triumph and power?
~ Ameen Rihani
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
~ Andre Gide
I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.
~ Anna Paquin
We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.
~ Anthony Daniels
It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.
~ Anthony Head
In life as in football, fall forward when you fall.
~ Arthur Guiterman
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
But I live an interesting life and I can tell a pretty good story and it has helped my career. But the downside is people know everything.
~ Artie Lange