Quotes About Adversity

We all have struggles in life but we have to continue to fight

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

Prison life, fortunately, I spent a lot of years, about 18 years with other prisoners, and, as I say, they enriched your soul.

I'm not sure anyone's life turns out exactly the way they imagine. All we can do is to try to make the best of it. Even when it seems impossible.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can.

I went through a lot of bullying early on. Girls made my life a living hell. We had come to America from a different country. My brother and I had accents. It was very tough.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.

When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.

I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn't perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind.

A Warrior often loses heart.

The cup of suffering is not the same size for everyone.

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

You'll catch your death of cold. Clouseau: Yes, yes I probably will but . . . its all part of life's rich pageantry, you kneau.

You be greater than your feelings. I don't demand this of you - life does. Otherwise you'll be washed away by feelings. You'll be washed out to sea and never seen again.

Everybody's got whatever problems they have. I refuse to let somebody's mistaken beliefs affect my life.

Growing up I had a lot of really negative energy in my life from people that were in my life, so I know to how to stand up for myself.

It is a kind of blindness--poverty. We can only grope through life when we are poor, hitting and maiming ourselves against every angle.

Accept your life and what it brings, I know tomorrow you find better things.

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I've had a lot of those. I've been broke before, and will be again.

The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful