Quotes About Adversity

Everyone goes through a hard time in their life.

It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life.

Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.

There was a possibility I could have been out of the NBA. It's taught me something that was a little deeper than basketball. I'm talking about life decisions.

Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Failure can only open more doors for you as a person and as growth and life.

Really anything can happen at any time and we are very addicted to comfort. Life is just not always comfortable.

Suck it up. This is the life you chose for yourself, so buck up and deal.

Nobody ever said life was fair.

It is said that in life we must play with the cards we are dealt, but too often I have kept those cards too close to my chest.

I felt sure about wanting to look at a person's life that had been limited or damaged, but not necessarily ennobled, by loss.

Remember you are a different person now than before, you are wiser & stronger for the trials that you have been through.

In my life, I've dealt with tragedy.

I can bounce back from adversity and reinvent my life - it's possible

A person cannot grow up through happiness. Happiness makes a person shallow. It is only through suffering that we grow up, transform, and come to a better understanding of life.

Why is life so difficult for some people and not for others? Why do some people have to struggle so much?

He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

No. But I understand her. Life makes people what they are.

Life is full of horrible mistakes.

If you will just start with the idea that this is a hard world, it will all be much simpler.

Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down; and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.

There's always negatives no matter what you're in in life. However if you keep being persistent the negative usually becomes a positive.

Life will deal me many different hands, some good, some bad (maybe they've already been dealt), but from here on in, I'll be turning my own cards. —Alton Richard