Quotes About Adversity

Childhood bullying was a big part of my life.

We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade; our life, like the harmony of the world, is composed of contrary things, and one part is no less necessary than the other.

I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along.

A lot of families deal with messy, inconvenient situations. Because that's life. Life doesn't turn out and it's not perfect. My life hasn't been perfect but it's what I'm going to make out of it.

There was a moment there when it was getting really bad and everyone was being let go. I was, like, 'Can I get fired, please? Can I move on with my life?'

But we are all sorry when loss comes for us. The test of our character comes not in how many tears we shed but in how we act after those tears have dried.

Why does life carry some people on the crest of the wave while others drown beneath the water?

It is our fundamental belief in the power of hope that has allowed us to rise above the voices of doubt and division, of anger and fear that we have faced in our own lives and in the life of America.

Many of us are equal to life's emergencies who cannot bear its day-after-dayness.

My life's not tragic at all. How many guys do you know who are bankrupt and just bought a $3 million house and are getting ready to get $6 million more?

All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life—where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

The moment somebody becomes famous, 15 years gets knocked off their life. They're gonna get divorced a few times, they're gonna be addicted to things, they're gonna be in therapy.

We come into the world whole, all of us, but we don't know that, don't know that life will be taking large chunks out of us, forever.

If 'Life in Marvelous Times' can't get on the radio, then I don't need to be on the radio.

Life might hurt, might bruise, might forever scar, but it was for living.

Ugh! Young girls, they should laugh. Life's bad enough when you're grown, you might as well laugh when you're young.

If you know anything about me, you know that my life's taken a few unexpected curves and crashes along the way. But hey, at least I can say I took the scenic route!

Life gives no one immunity against adversity, but life gives to everyone the power of positive thought which is sufficient to master all circumstances of adversity and convert them into benefits.

Thus hand in hand through life we 'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we 'll tread.

Good in Crisis; Sucks at Normal.' That about sums up my whole life, doesn't it?

Life is not cured, Mr. Gilner." Dr. Mahmoud leans in. "Life is managed.

Nobody gets through life without losing a few things on the way.

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.