Quotes About Adversity

Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

But it there's anything I've learned in the past few months, it's that the only thing that's certain in life is that nothing in life is certain.

To experience life you have to kind of face a lot of fears.

It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows.

I do tend to move on anyway. This is a part of my life, but it doesn't rule my life.

I've faced worse things in my life than prison

If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life - It is because we are not bold enough!

It's a mistake to try to avoid the unpleasant things in life... But I'm beginning to consider it.

But ah! disasters have their use; And life might e'en be too sunshiny.

Where I come from, there were traditions with my race and whenever you faced a curve in life, there was always a tradition.

This is a tough, tough life when things aren't going your way.

What makes a person a success is how they handle the lows in life and how they make their comeback.

We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone was simultaneously pushed to their limit.

Impossible is a word for other people to use when life scares them.

How can we be scrupulous In a life which, from birth onwards, is so determined To wring us dry of any serenity at all?

It's true that the people that succeed in life are the people that keep getting up after they fall down, but no one gets through without falling down.

If you've led a rather bohemian and rackety life, as I have, it's precisely the cancer that you'd expect to get. That's a bit of a yawn.

If life was a piece of cake, it wouldn't be worth eating!

The air will always be to filled with something. Your body too sore or tired. Your father too drunk. Your wife too cold. You will always have some excuse not to live your life.

I have to think it's possible to suffer a great wrong and walk away from it. To build a life of small, exquisitely important moments.

I don't really have the luxury to be bitter. I don't have the luxury of having negative things in my life.

Despair makes victims sometimes victors.