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Quotes About Adversity

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens, and carry your own weight.
~ Ernie Isley
It is better that we live ever so Miserably than die in glory.
~ Euripides
When I was at the interview asked how I cope with life's difficulties, I said that saving sense of humor. I'm not lying.
~ Eva Longoria
If we have any criticism of our leaders, we invite Satan into our lives and beliefs.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
In life they're not going to serve you lemons, they're going to serve you lemonade; and I don't really like lemonade because I've got a really bad acid reflux.
~ Felicia Day
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.
~ Fernando Pessoa
No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.
~ Fiona Apple
Not everything in my life has been pretty.
~ Frances Newton
There are many predicaments in life that one must be a bit crazy to escape from.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
You'll have to learn that public life takes a lot of sweat; but it doesn't need to worry you. You won't always be right, but you mustn't suffer from being wrong. That's what kills people like us.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are powers and forces that will seek to block you, to make your life more difficult. But if you are up to the study, then you continue to progress without getting discouraged.
~ Frederick Lenz
When you're happy it's pretty tough to knock you over. You can handle whatever comes along in life.
~ Frederick Lenz
Go through the things that life gives you to go through, happily. You have to loosen the grip of time, gradually.
~ Frederick Lenz
Life is a series of problems.
~ Maxwell Maltz
I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life.
~ Maya Angelou
Sometimes in life, you fall down holes you can't climb out of by yourself. That's what friends and family are for-to help. They can't help, however, unless you let them know you're down there.
~ Meg Cabot
Sometimes life puts too big weights on little shoulders and the reply of little shoulders to this injustice is remarkable: To carry the burden with courage and dignity!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Take your hands out of your pocket, because life may push you hardly at any time!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.
~ Melanie Lynskey
Since I was 19, I've had the most fun possible every single day, even when I had a rough life. It was the army which taught me about life, and the theater which taught me how good it could be.
~ Michael Caine
In life, we all get scored on every day. The wonderful thing is, if we do our best with courage and tenacity, we might be outscored but we can never be beaten.
~ Michael Josephson
I want us all to face our fears and stop behaving like our goal in life is to merely survive.
~ Michael Moore
I'm aware that, if you feel down, it can be strangely unrelated to circumstances around you. That's just the way life is.
~ Michael Palin
Humor is an attitude, a survivor's way of looking at life. It's not about telling jokes.
~ Michael Shurtleff