Dealing with Adversity Quotes

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I know the struggles that are ahead in my life and I know the struggles that are ahead in your life. It's not going to be pretty.

If you run away from trouble, it always follows.

Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot.

We all go through things in life, and it's just how you deal with it. Try to stay positive throughout the worst.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

We must meet the challenge rather than wish it were not before us.

Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

It didn’t and doesn’t turn out well. There is no happy ending to the story of sorrow if you are born with a predilection for despair. The world is, after all, a coarse and brutal and cruel place. It’s only a matter of how long you can live with it.

Challenges are something that can only be tackled in the present moment and require action.

It’s better to be in the arena, getting stomped by the bull, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

There's nothing that America can't handle if we actually look squarely at the problem. ...Change depends on our actions.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.

There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

Did you think you could have the good without the evil? Did you think you could have the joy without the sorrow? . . . . I have been thinking much about pain. How could I help it? . . . . Sooner or later, regardless of the wit of man, we have pain to face; a reality; a final inescapable, immutable fact of life. What poor souls, if we have then no philosophy to face it with! This pain will not last; it never has lasted. I'll think about what I am going to write tomorrow-not about me, not about my body.

Nobody comes to Earth to dodge problems. We come here to take 'em on.

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

Well, as a player you try to learn how to win, and when you get exposed to success there's also disappointment that comes along the way. So it becomes about how you deal with the ups and downs.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

I recently had my problems on the run, but now they've re-grouped, and are making another attack.

It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last.

There are people that don't need to run towards adversity. They grew up in circumstances where it's forced upon them. Other people lead, pushier lives. So there are all kinds of forms of adversity in the world.