Quotes About Adversity

Suffering and success go together. If you are succeeding without suffering, it is because others before you have suffered; if you are suffering without succeeding, it is that others after you may succeed.

Mysterious as it appears to be, true faith and suffering frequently go hand-in-hand.

Having an attitude of thankfulness in all of life's circumstances will help you react as old Matthew Henry did when he was mugged. He wrote in his diary, "Let me be thankful first because I was never robbed before; second, although they took my purse, they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth, because it was I who was robbed, not I who robbed." I wonder if I could be that thankful!

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

I've crashed my car three times.

We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it

A week in Paris will ease the bite of it.All I care is to smile in spite of it.

That's the way it crumbles, cookie-wise

We cry and spin our wheels... and struggle to overcome. And we learn something every day.

That is what's meant by being afraid of the future, by showing how brilliant you come out of it.

The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster.

New levels bring new devils, more favours means more haters

Do not force to be a victor always, learn to gain more when you lose in every situation. Failure is a great guidance which no one can afford you because it normally wasteful and painful.

Problems abound, but the manly and healthy view is that they exist to be bravely faced, and if possible solved.

Sympathy is not a quality merely needed in adversity. It is needed as much when the sun shines.

We have been travelling through a cloud. The sky has been dark ever since the war began.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power.

force. I have fallen back on the Bull Run,

Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.

You know, nowadays, if you step out at all into any area of public controversy, you're going to get a bucket of something unpleasant poured over you, so you just get used to that.

We can correct our historical and contemporary weaknesses; or be consumed by them.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.