Quotes About Adversity

Many things that I have accomplished in my life were not because I knew they would make me happy, but because it made my enemies unhappy.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.

Having grown up in dire poor, the thing that I hated the most in life was poverty.

He who anticipates his century is generally persecuted when living, and always pilfered when dead.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Well' Francie decided, 'I guess the thing that is giving me this headache is life - and nothing else but'.

I believe pain is nature's way of saying, 'You're still alive, and life sucks.'

They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.

It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Life is filled with trapdoors.

The comforts of life as a fugitive," Drake sighed. "Stumbling about in the dark without mounts.

That's what life is about: about daring greatly, about being in the arena.

I'm an obvious example of how everyone is spiraling out of control on the show and just trying to live life the best they can without destroying themselves.

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

It's been one of the greatest challenges that ever came along in my life; it was one of the more difficult things to do.

Nothing ever goes wrong in life.

You couldn't always control life, just your response to it.

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

The best paths in life are rarely the easiest.

Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.