Quotes About Adversity

Well, the first days are the hardest days, don't you worry anymore. When life looks like Easy Street there is danger at your door.

I learned early in life that laughter is a great way to diffuse and uncomfortable situation, so I began to use that as a tool, throughout my life.

I'm inspired by challenges. My life was always like this.

I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

It's a terrible thing that your life turns into a good story.

You don't have to have all the right things in life, all the doors already open for you, in order to do great things.

When you're younger - duh - you don't really have the tools to deal with certain things in your life.

Life is sometimes amazingly fragile, but some lives are frighteningly strong.

I like to live life in an understated way because that's who I am - an ordinary guy who has experienced an extraordinary journey.

After I was injured, I had several good examples of "Get on with it, stop whinging and life can be what you make it," because the world doesn't stop turning when you have a boo-boo.

Camp life is demanding, and even the simplest daily routine becomes a chore in a climate with 90 per cent humidity, not to mention the bugs.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

Hasn't anyone ever told you? Life isn't fair.

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little about the fairness of life.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

Sometimes that's all life is... One desperate act after another.

Life isn't all beer and skittles.

The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life.

I got into rapping by being a victim of circumstances; it was a hard situation with my brother. Mainly my older brother got hit with a life sentence, so he kind of inspired me.

Life sweeps you up. Some people resist a lot. I probably haven't resisted very much.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.