Quotes About Adversity

When all choice is taken from you, life becomes a game of survival.

You know, I've had a bitter, hard life since I last heard your voice and if I've survived it's all because of you.

Life breaks all of us but some of us get stronger in the broken places.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

In my race, theres 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and its what you do, you know.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

[Roseanne Roseannadanna line:] It's always something.

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

What is the power of life? With all the ungraceful dirt, nonsense, you remain graceful.

I studied at the Academy during the years of economic sanctions. Life was almost dead because the sanctions imposed on Iraq by the civilized world were so strict.

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

Life, for Colin, was one long brace against pain and disappointment, and everybody apart from his wife was an enemy until proven otherwise.

Wow, I wonder what it'd be like to have a difficult life?

Too many lives go up in smoke - It's nice to laugh but don't be the joke.

To me, life, for all its privations, is a luminous thing. You have to risk it.

It's been the structure of my life: you scheme and plan and try and fail and try again and accumulate and lose and win back, and then you tell.

The protagonist of folktale is always, and intensely, a young person moving through ordeals into adult life. . . . and this is why there are no wicked stepchildren in the tales.

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.

You know, I've had a helluva life.

Life is so tough. I don't know how old you are, but I've seen so much in a wink. One phone call and your life is changed forever. We all know that. You better laugh at everything.

We are forced to participate in the games of life before we can possibly learn how to use the options in the rules governing them.

I wasn't going to let Jerry Sloan embarrass me, because basketball had a proper role in my life. I suspected my basketball philosophy wasn't the bottom line anyway.

We cannot walk through life on mountain peaks.