Quotes About Adversity

Whatever I think, whatever I try to do, life might just turn around and... and hitch up its pants and throw me a twenty-dollar bill.

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the other side.

If we focus on the minuses, we go down the spiral. But if we are able to focus on the pluses, we can become stronger and put more meaning into our life.

We can't always control what happens but we can control our response

We only appreciate the comforts of life in their loss.

I am one of those people who can't help getting a kick out of life - even when it's a kick in the teeth.

Being resilient is the essence of my life.

I highly recommend inviting the worst-case scenario into your life.

I have experienced loss in my life, but the thing that brings you back is your faith.

Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction.

There is no such thing as failure. Mistakes happen in your life to bring into focus more clearly who you really are.

To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

In life there are worse things (then being fired by the Miami Marlins) and I have experienced them. I have lived through bad moments and I will get through this with support.

The meekest of animals will fight bravely when it is backed against a wall, for it has nothing left to lose. A poor man is more deadly than a rich man because he puts less value on his own life.

I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way.

Overall, my life has been one of survival and the decisions that I have made along the way, including my identification, have been to survive.

Cancer changes your whole life.

Life is neither comedy or tragedy, life is what you make of it.

I've been through some very dark times in my life and I've been through those very dark times that's affected my world view, the lens that I see people through, so I can relate to that.

I think life throws enough curveballs that you shouldn't make such a big deal out of everything.

The sense of danger made her lift up her head higher. There were battles coming. But life was meant to be a battle, wasn't it? There was nothing to fear.

A gardener's life is full of sweets and sours; He gets the sunshine when he needs the showers.