Quotes About Adversity

Life is a series of problems to figure out how to solve gracefully and with dignity. That is what life is and I can't see it any other way.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

The curse of an interesting life: there are either very good times or very bad times.

I've tried to live my life right, just like a story.

trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life.

I would never felt good if I hadn't experienced losing, because losing is part of your life. And it something that if I could teach people to understand that I think it could help them a lot.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

Until we do something about wild dogs, kangaroos competing for pasture, your fortunes in life aren't gonna turn around.

You either get life or you don't, and if you don't - life gets you.

I have failed so much, but I have learned so much more in life from my failures than my successes.

Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That's what it's all about.

Life isn't like coursework, baby. It's one damn essay crisis after another.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that.

God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.

Life is not going to be sweet all the time.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

Life goes on after sorrow, in spite of sorrow, as a defense against sorrow.

Remember that life develops what it demands - the toughest path creates the strongest warrior. Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.

Life is a challenge" he once told me, "and only those who rise to the challenge truly know what it means to live.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.