Quotes About Adversity

If the world gives you a thousand reasons to cry, find a thousand and one reasons to smile.

A shrewd enemy will teach you more than a foolish friend.

Ignore those who resent you. Avoid those who begrudge you. Excuse those who envy you. Pity those who hate you.

If you stop tending to flowers when they lose a few petals, you will never grow a garden.

When a rock transforms into a diamond, lesser stones will not speak of its beauty, but speak of its unpolishedness.

You don't choose the music your enemies play, but you choose which songs you dance to.

they that fail to recognize, take and and learn the lessons of discomfort well, meet the comforts of life and still live in discomfort

all may not be well but, sometimes, things that seem so uncanny are what shield and protect us from the worst situations in life.

When you meet the real problems of life, think of the real lessons of life for the real lessons of life are in the real problems of life

If you try to extinguish the light of one who shines like the sun you will get burned.

What doesn't kill me provides writing material.

Not being "okay, " is a gift. And inside that gift, is the strength to change and the courage to begin again.

Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.

Challenges often require that we suffer or endure over an extended period of time —thus Challenges develop patience.

I don't agree that life favors the prepared mind because life made me lose my mind.

If there are many thorns in your life, it is because you are a rose.

Warriors respect each other. They give dignity to each other either in a win or in a defeat.

It is the worst people in your life that teach you the best lessons.

When life's great storms come, the weak sink, the cowardly jump ship, the strong drop an anchor, the mighty adjust their sails, and the great sail on to their destiny.

Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life will continue being sweet!

We sometimes have to experience pain for us to have a story to tell.

A flower has no choice in where it is planted, but does have a choice in the direction it grows.

A cat may have nine lives, but a wise person has a hundred.

A thorn is a rose's friend but a gardener's enemy.