Quotes About Adversity

No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all.

Everyone in life has their challenges, mine have not been financial.

So this is how life was, she thought with a faint smile: It wore you down until you emerged at its wildest, most unexpected ends.

If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.

Oh, I know I'll improve. It's just that my life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes now. That's a sentence I read once, and I say it over to comfort myself in these times that try the soul.

I walked away a little disheartened, thinking, 'Oh well. I came a long way to meet the Wizard of Oz, but I guess I won't. Such is life.

I think I owe my life to cork soles.

Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.

Babies are born whole and then they go through experiences in life that chip away at some of that, and it becomes learned behavior.

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

I look back, it taught me something - it taught me how to live, how to be a better guy, not let defeat be the end of my life.

Why am I so often at the mercy of those who don't deserve to control my life?

I try to take life as it comes, and just hope it keeps coming.

When you start to realize life isn't fair, what do you do: curl up and die or fight every second of the way?

I've felt depressed many times in my life, so I can draw on those times in my life when I need to.

I've learned how to turn the adversities in my life into enriching experiences. You can actually gain a lot from adversities and they make you the person you are today.

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

You can swim in life and seawater, but both are hard to swallow.

It is when things go hardest, when life becomes most trying, that there is greatest need for having a fixed goal.

Let me tell you, life is interesting regardless of when you are in the fight.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.

Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.