Quotes About Adversity

He who suffers, triumphs.

That which doesn't kill you will just require many stitches. -Caillen

Aren't you the one who always says that sometimes things have to go wrong in order to go right?" "I also say that just because you can, doesn't mean you should.

When the going gets tough, the tough gets napalm.

When the going gets tough, the tough get napalm.

Life isn't about being fair," he breathed. "It's not about justice. It's all about endurance and how much we can suffer through.

Boy, you knock on the devil's door and he will head-slam you through the wall. -Dev

No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the pieces after it's all over and carrying on. We can choose to be cowards who fear letting someone inside us, and do that alone. Or we can choose to be brave and let someone stand by our side and help us. - Lydia, Time Untime

A wise man once told me that life, like war, is neither right nor wrong. It just is. And rather than worry over a philosophy you can't change, you should just try to live through it as best you can.

Life must pass through difficulty in order to achieve any modicum of beauty.

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for.

I've tried to move on with my life and my career for the last two years and do my own thing, and 'American Idol' and FOX, they've just been making it really tough for me to do that.

The first eight years of my life, we lived in an abandoned diner - we were basically squatters.

Life doesn't retreat.

There are some who go through life with a shadow hanging over them, particularly if they live in a building which has long wide awnings.

I guess just accepting failure is the thing. I don't really look at it as a failure. I look at them as learning lessons and things you grow from but not really a failure, because that's life.

But in life we don't usually get to choose the time of our defining moments. We just have to stand and face them when they come, no matter what sort of a state we're in.

Yeah, but what happens if life hands me pickles? - Bumper sticker

Don't convince yourself you're over, don't convince yourself you're done, just because the things around you seem heavy, doesn't mean you can't get off this ground.

I wasn't born with a tie or with Mark Shields stapled to my left hip. I have another life.

...at times, the greatest courage of all is to live.

Life itself is dispare, so we must make darkness our ally

I've had plenty of negative reviews. I have my entire life.

So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.