Quotes About Adversity

Our goal is not to have A problem-free life. But to conquer all the problems As they appear Along our life-road.

Leonardo DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.

Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.

My teacher said my brain was the size of a pea. He made my life miserable by singling me out in the classroom as a failure.

When you fail to succeed the first time, keep trying. It's called life.

Mr William, he said, in my life six times have I crashed, and on not one occasion have I ever been killed.( Bevinda Singh taxi driver from City of Djinns

It makes life very simple actually. You could be giving a TV interview in howling gale and it no longer matters.

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

Life is made up of danger and heartbreak, I laugh in the face of both!

I used to ask for an easy life, now I ask to be strong.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

I am sure care's an enemy to life.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

Life is a test and this world a place of trial.

Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.

Life really is like a grindstone, in that it will either grind you down or polish you up.

I was really poor for most of my adult life.

Things happen in life and you can't control them. It sucks and you have to move on.