Quotes About Adversity

A ship ought not to be held by one anchor, nor life by a singe hope.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

We should not moor a ship with one anchor, or our life with one hope.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

Tell me where I can escape death: discover for me the country, show me the men to whom I must go, whom death does not visit. Discover to me a charm against death. If I have not one, what do you wish me to do? I cannot escape from death, but shall I die lamenting and trembling? . . . Therefore if I am able to change externals according to my wish, I change them: but if I cannot, I am ready to tear the eyes out of him who hinders me.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

I also knew two teachers who never got a job again in the entire Hitler period. They had to sell postcards to get by.

As this is written, a sow bug crawls across a desk. If he is turned over on his back, one can observe the tremendous struggle he goes through to get on his feet again. During this interval he has a 'purpose' in his life. When he succeeds, one can almost see the look of victory on his face. Off he goes, and one can imagine him telling his tale at the next meeting of sow bugs, looked up to by the younger generation as an insect who has made it. And

You gotta do what you gotta do, and when you're done, you'll be stronger.

It's true she was a flower. But a flower that thrives in the wrong place is a weed.

This challenge did not come to stay. "It came to pass. "No matter how real or substantial it seemed to be, it would pass away, just as every other undesirable situation before it had done. It had come to bring me something I needed for my own growth. But now it would pass on into oblivion.

Cuando te encuentras en una situación aparentemente sin esperanza, es sabio evitar la tendencia de enfatizar la oscuridad del túnel en vez del hecho de que éste tiene luz en ambos extremos.

Grow through what you go through.

Every experience makes you a man.

We are still here, despite everything that has been taken away any moment we aren't looking

We feel free when we escape — even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

It is often the failure who is the pioneer in new lands, new undertakings, and new forms of expression.

The most gifted members of the human species are at their creative best when they cannot have their way, and must compensate for what they miss by realizing and cultivating their capacities and talents.