Quotes About Adversity

Maybe the problem is that I was never taught to enjoy failure as an opportunity.

She cannot chain my soul. Yes, she could hurt me. She'd already done so...I would bleed, or not. Scar, or not. Live, or not. But she could not hurt my soul, not unless I gave it to her.

Real life is only ever just real life. Messy. What it means depends on how you look at it. The only thing you've got to do is find a way to live there.

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

The ties that bind us to life are tougher than you imagine, or than any one can who has not felt how roughly they may be pulled without breaking.

I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. There is only one way to go in life and that is forward.

The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.

The worst happens, and life still goes on.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

A Gallagher Girl's real grades don't come in pass or fail—they're measured in life or death.

True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.

I really do believe that anything in life - any obstacle or challenge - can be made better with humor.

Cancer's only one page in my life, and I will not allow this page to impact the rest of my life.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

To have divine favor on your life means you'll attract extraordinary opposition

Your life is a lot bigger than this moment. You need to remember that you can't let the trials you face right now derail your course forever.

I have swum against the stream all my life. It's not something I feel uncomfortable with. Is it difficult? Is it unpleasant? You bet.

When there are no other options, people fight harder. If the choice is life or death they have nothing to lose.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

I feel that it's important to fail now and again. For instance, if I go for a job and I don't get it, that makes me not a better person, but more balanced, more aware of what life is really like.

I have been rich, and I have been broke. Some of it is my fault for choosing bad management and making bad investments. But that is life - we all take risks.

When you fall, never get up without gaining anything. Always find something on the way up. If there are only rocks, grasp one to throw in order to defend yourself.

Remember, no matter what life throws at us, we can always bake a cake!