Adversity Quotes

"There’s no pain or failure like going through a divorce."

- Jennifer Lopez

"A divorce moves at the speed of complete deadening silence, or that's how it feels."

- Jenny Slate

"Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light."

- John Milton

"If your dad died before you were born, yeah, it hurts - but it's not like you had a connection with something that was real. Not to say it's any better - but to have that connection and then have it ripped away was, like, the worst. My dad was such a good dad that when he left, he left a huge scar. He was my superhero."

- Jay-Z

"Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all."

- Jay-Z

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- Anne Bradstreet

"But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."

- William Shakespeare

"When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land."

- Desmond Tutu

"Suffering over your suffering doesn’t prove that you want to stop suffering. What it does prove is that you are afraid to end your suffering because you think the end of it means the end of you. It does not."

- Guy Finley

"I know a lot of police officers who are on the force to do the right thing to protect people. But how can you deny this pattern, this disturbing pattern, Alton Sterling, Mr. Castile in my own community, Philando Castile, but then Tamir Rice, Mike Brown, Eric Garner, Sandra Bland?"

- Keith Ellison

"I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts."

- Herman Melville

"Confronting a storm is like fighting God. All the powers in the universe seem to be against you and, in an extraordinary way, your irrelevance is at the same time both humbling and exalting."

- Francis LeGrande

""When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.""

- Henry Ford

"The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth."

- Gerald Burrill

"Happiness Requires Struggle"

- Mark Manson

"It's hard to fight when the fight ain't fair."

- Taylor Swift

"Multitasking takes a toll. At home or at work, distractions lead to poor choices, painful mistakes, and unnecessary stress."

- Gary Keller

"The death of a parent is always difficult, no matter your age. Even if we logically understand it is a natural part of life, the emotional impact can be profound."

- Alan D. Wolfelt

"Every child deserves a champion — an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best they can possibly be."

- Rita Pierson

"I’m at an age where my back goes out more than I do."

- Phyllis Diller

"You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it."

- J.K. Rowling

"No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear."

- C.S. Lewis

"A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him."

- Winston Churchill

"Smaller guys can hit the golf balls as long as the larger guys by generating similar club head speed. But, what a price must be paid. To perform at the same level as a larger athlete, the smaller frame will be taxed heavily. Most will not enjoy a healthy twilight years."

- Dr. Bob Rotella

"To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships."

- W.E.B. DuBois

"Oh, I am very weary, / Though tears no longer flow; / My eyes are tired of weeping, / My heart is sick of woe."

- Anne Bronte

"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders… All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism."

- Hermann Goring

"This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments – and you get the tears at the end, too."

- Harlan Coben

"Make the most of tough times."

"Don't judge my journey if you haven't lived my past"