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Quotes About Adversity

When life gives you lemons... choke on them and die... you stupid lemon eater.
~ Scott Adams
I don't see life as an opportunity to see how far you can go in the pursuit of pain, although I think I've challenged it a bit.
~ Sean Penn
The whole point to life-that you have to experience yourself, but then when you do you realize that you've learned so much from the bad things that sometimes they're better than the good things.
~ Selma Blair
Unfortunately, real life doesn't have a remote control.
~ Simone Elkeles
You know what, life is full of temptations
~ Smokey Robinson
And now, my friends, a dragon's toast! Here's to life's little blessings: war, plagues, and all forms of evil. Their presence keeps us alert--- and their absence keeps us grateful.
~ T.A. Barron
Most of my schooldays were the worst day of my life.
~ Terry Pratchett
The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor.
~ Tina Fey
My life growing up was a twisted Bronx version of The Color Purple. It had a much different soundtrack and no trees, but that desperation was the same.
~ Tracy Morgan
Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs.
~ Tupac Shakur
You need sucky things in life to make you stronger.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
you've got to learn something from every defeat in life or life will defeat you.
~ Virginia C. Andrews
Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.
~ Wes Fesler
When I lose a match, I know that I lose on the court and not in life.
~ Gabriela Sabatini
In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
~ Garrison Keillor
I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.
~ Hillary Clinton
The biggest thing I've learned is to smash my own spiders and get on with my day. There will be another!
~ Hoda Kotb
Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.
~ J. K. Rowling
Life doesn't give you all the practice races you need.
~ Jesse Owens
Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Every major difficulty you face in life is a fork in the road. You choose which track you will head down, toward breakdown or breakthrough.
~ John C. Maxwell
I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life, and not too long to be downed by them.
~ John Mason Brown
Life's tough. It's even tougher when you are stupid.
~ John Wayne