Quotes About Adversity

If I'd stopped believing that my life would eventually get better, I don't think I would have survived high school.

But life's never easy when you need it to be.

Life is always uncertain,'he said with a shrug. 'We cannot let the fear of what might happen stop us living as we choose.

I try to look on the sunny side of life. If something dramatic happens to me, I always try to recount it as a comedy tale, rather than a victim's story.

The low points are there for a good reason. I think they can teach you a life lesson.

There was still food rationing in England and life was difficult all through my 2 year stay in Oxford.

I'm a big believer that, in life, we can't succeed in everything. Most times, we lose.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

Either i've turned stupid, or life's turned hard.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

I've seen a lot in my life. My dad was pretty gnarly but I loved him and I wouldn't change it for the world. My mom's a survivor.

We come to know who we really are in life during the dark and difficult and desolate days of our journey.

I believe there is nothing we endure in life that you can't recover from. Failure is not fatal. Everyone has the capacity to fail up.

There are really only two types of people. Either you're running scared or you're running free. I choose to run free, and you can, too, no matter what your circumstances in life.

Having to try and going through the trials and tribulations to actually overcome, to get there to win, to triumph, that's what makes life interesting

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

You have to not only live your life in spite of people who don't understand you, you have to have more fun than they do.

The thing about life is, every time you learn a lesson, another is waiting right at the corner. You never know everything.

And you know there's nothing like writing a song about someone who's mean to you, and just makes your life miserable…and then winning a Grammy for it.

I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

In this life you have obstacles.

The trouble with life was that you didn't get a chance to practice before doing it for real.

The world wants the kind of men who do not shrink from temporary defeats in life; but come again and wrestle triumph from defeat.