Quotes About Adversity

I have suffered more from my bad dancing than from all the misfortunes and miseries of my life put together.

No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe.

It was the hardest year of my life. It was humbling. I was a fish out of water.

He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.

I have heeded the lessons of the wise in that when life kicks me in the head, I turn to it my hind section also.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!

I actually got hurt in a steel factory in 1985 and so that changed my life. I went to a junior college and that's where I discovered acting.

The poet and the politician have this in common: their greatness depends on the courage with which they face the challenges of life.

Talking about adversity that I've walked through in my own life or hearing an artist talk about their own adversity makes me feel vulnerable.

Life is what happens when you make other plans.

I was married very young. I lived a very middle class life. I was married at age 21, divorced at 31. I didn't sleep on people's couches.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

Those lessons that I got along the way are the ones that have shaped my life for the last 20 years.

To me coming up short as a team and for me not having a great particular game was tough to swallow, but your life doesn't end there. You must put your life into perspective and keep moving on.

Like any of life's refining fires, cancer is a potentially profound learning experience. So what did I learn? I learned that profound learning experiences are vastly overrated.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people. As you overcome adversity in your life, you will become stronger.

Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled.

I have been bullied for sure in my life. I am only 5'2", was chubby most of my life so I did get teased for that and also for being in movies.

The Hulk, that was the experience of my life, so far.

Life doesn't always end up with a bow wrapped around it.

God never promised us a trouble-free life.

If you can't learn to enjoy your life when you have problems, you may never enjoy it because we'll always have problems.