Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

The streets would have chewed me up and spit me out and I knew that, but I found my own ways and different knacks for getting in trouble and being reckless with my life. And I've overcome a lot of personal demons and to be alive is really my greatest achievement.

Ordinary people shy away form negative situations, just as they do with failure. They do their best to avoid trouble. What great people do is the opposite. They are their best in these situations. They turn personal tragedy or misfortune - really anything, everything - to their advantage.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

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.

I do think we all go through struggles in life. I do think we're all going to fall down, along the way.

Life is not supposed to be easy. Stop working so hard to make it that way. Go ahead and handle it!

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.

In my race, there's 10 hurdles, but in life, there is always a hurdle. There is always something you gotta get over, and it's what you do, you know.

Now, no matter what background you come from, there is nobody in this world who can say that their life is without troubles. Everybody faces problems at some point in their life. All that matters is how you deal with it.

I don't want someone else to go through and live through the life that I have had to live through in terms of the challenges that I face.

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

I want to make lemonade out of the lemons that were dealt to me.

Marty Robbins once sang you give me a mountain, I've been given a few mountains in my life.

You don't get anywhere unless you've had a little bit of a complicated life.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

Everyone's got a boulder in their life of one sort or another that they need to overcome. For most people, it's not a literal one, but there are certainly metaphorical ones.

You have to have the lows in your life so you can deal with them.

That's what I'm attracted to: how people face struggle - with humor - and how they handle tough situations in their lives and in conversations.

Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

Everybody has their ups and downs, and that's what makes you tougher.