Quotes About Adversity

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably haven't been born yet.

The nature of the game is pain.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

I was taught that pain is bad.

Lives have been altered in fundamental ways, and later, after they acquire a more complete understanding of what goals are actually attainable, many are left facing a lot of pain and frustration. And yet, there's no culture of complaint.

A lot of other things come along with Chapter 11, which basically end up in a lot of pain.

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse. Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend to be even more of a pain in the arse.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

I completely, 100 percent got bullied, and I'd still stick up for myself and try to be strong, but it was always so deeply painful.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

Because we make ourselves deaf to feedback, because we overestimate our abilities, because we become consumed with ourselves, we end up subjecting ourselves not just to the inevitable stumbles or difficulties of life but catastrophic, painful failures.

Even though it has been very painful, lots of opportunities have come forward journalistically. Once all of this blows over, I think it might actually help that I have gotten this attention.

No matter how painful something is, you have to take it. I saw that in both my parents.

The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

Listen, I wish economic growth only went in one direction. It doesn't. There are economic downturns. They're painful, they're harmful, and they hurt families.

The two most painful things in my life are arthritis and divorce.

I've always been interested in how other people live their lives, which is why it's important to engage fully even in painful times. And out of that, I get to laugh.

For five years of my life, I was just getting by - every day was painful. I couldn't wear heels, I couldn't run, and I could only walk for, like, 20 minutes. That's not living.

Losing is very painful for me.

It's really, really painful for me to actually say the words out loud: 'I got beat.'

All painful events have a purpose, and mine has made my life what it is today.

A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.

My family was very notorious in the town that we lived in. Everyone would say, 'There goes those damn Sams.' I didn't want to paint that ill picture of me. I knew the good in my family. They didn't know our background and the adversity we had to endure. I wanted to succeed and be a beacon of hope in my family.