Quotes About Adversity

The most valuable moments and experiences that life has to offer are found only along its most treacherous paths.

I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

You won't die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.

If I hadn't gone through some of the painful experiences in my life, I would not be me.

During the first 10 years of my life, while my parents were married, I enjoyed a privileged upbringing. After their divorce, my life was difficult.

You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you're given the key, you throw it away.

Vulnerability pushed, I pushed back. I lost the fight, but probably won my life back.

I think when you experience things in your life, dealing with good and bad things, you just become stronger in so many ways.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.

Pain is like fabric: The stronger it is, the more it's worth.

As much as life can suck, it always beats the alternative.

All life is a test one way or the other.

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Life is more about losing than winning.

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of life

Bravery is a requisite virtue because life demands it.

You know what? I was wrong. You are an idiot. My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

When I made coffee and Xeroxed and distributed newspapers at ABC News, I thought my life was over.

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?