Quotes About Adversity

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Like they say: you stew up your troubles and eat a hearty meal.

Nothing begets friendship so readily as trouble.

Don't judge people in their reduced circumstances, nobody aspires to be there.

The brighter stars emerge out of the blackest darkness.

The person who can freely acknowledge that life is full of difficulties can be free, because they are acknowledging the nature of life - that it can't be much else.

To have a headache will be all right, because you are healthy enough to have a headache.

Every weakness contains within itself a strength.

It doesn't matter," she said. "Life is full of stupid things and sometimes we just have to do them.

A failure is just the wrong way of looking at a missed opportunity!!!

Live your life like the waves, don't bother about the obstacles and go on, but always carry forward the believers who want to surf with you.

You will always be a victim of circumstances if you want to fall prey........... else you would be its enemy

Your good times decide whether you are criticized or forgotten during your bad times.

The sky falls. But there are other skies behind it. You just can't see it at the time.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Is it possible, that is, to love God no matter what? Job, through three tough tests—the loss of his possessions and children, the loss of his health, and the loss of his friends and their respect—answers in the affirmative. Yes, it is possible. In fact, it is necessary

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard' I am always tempeted to ask, 'Compared to what?

The cold hard fact of courage is that it has to spring from within. Because it's opposite, fear, lives inside of us as well...fear really is alive, even when it's just sitting there, free from its influence. Still we are aware how dangerous it is. How debilitating it is, how crippling and how it stops us some times.

Accept that environment compromises values far more than values do their number on environment.

If. A two-letter word for futility.

The three great stumbling blocks in a girl's education… homard a l'Américaine, a boiled egg, and asparagus.

I could have told him I'm one of the smallest guys on the ice. Can I help it if biggest players trip over my knee and smash into the boards? But the referee hadn't believed my story. This guy probably wouldn't either. Besides, he wasn't getting to me. I've been called worse things than a boneheaded jerk.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.