Quotes on adversity
Adversity does teach who your real friends are.
Author, Unknown
Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
Brooks, Garth
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Carlyle, Thomas
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
Nietzsche, Friedrich
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Fromm, Erich
There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity; but which kindles up, and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.
Irving, Washington
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
Miller, Hugh
The misfortunes of mankind are of varied plumage.
Aeschylus
Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.
Larcom, Lucy
The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.
Rubin, Theodore
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
Faulkner, William
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Churchill, Winston
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.
Hazlitt, William
When written in Chinese the word "crisis" is composed of two characters - one represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
Kennedy, John F.
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.
Golden, Harry
Bad is never good until worse happens.
Proverb, Danish
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken.
Stafford, William
"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never, never forget!" "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it.
Carroll, Lewis
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.
Confucius
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
Bacon, Francis
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.
Hart, Josephine
The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.
Lerner, Max
Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.
Churchill, Winston
If you want to forget all your other troubles, wear too tight shoes.
The Houghton Line
A bend in the road is not the end of the road... unless you fail to make the turn.
Unknown, Author
Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.
Babcock, Maltbie D.
By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.
Twain, Mark
We must try not to sink beneath our anguish, but battle on.
Rowling, J.K.
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Gates, Bill
They say a reasonable amount 'o fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.
Westcott, Edward
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Churchill, Winston
One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.
Schweitzer, Albert
Spirit can walk, spirit can swim, spirit can climb, spirit can crawl. There is no terrain you cannot overcome.
Hail, Irisa
Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.
Golden, Arthur
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
McLaughlin, Mignon
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
Russell, Bertrand
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity a greater.
Hazlitt, William
Calamity, n. A more than commonly plain and unmistakable reminder that the affairs of this life are not of our own ordering.
Bierce, Ambrose
Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?
Kennedy, Rose F.
Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.
Siegel, Bernie S.
Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, control youth, and delights old age.
Author, Unknown
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Fulghum, Robert
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Thoreau, Henry David
You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.
Beecher, Henry Ward
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself.
Proverb, Russian
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
Cheney, John Vance
Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.
Anouilh, Jean
If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.
Clark, Frank A.
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him.
Luther, Martin
We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.
Updike, John