Quotes About Adversity

I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet.

To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable.

It has been said that life has treated me harshly; and sometimes I have complained in my heart because many pleasures of human experience have been withheld from me…if much has been denied me, much, very much, has been given me…

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

I rejoice to live in such a splendidly disturbing time!

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

when one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one the one which has opened for us.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens: but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened before us.

Truly I have looked into the very heart of darkness, and refused to yield to its paralyzing influence, but in spirit I am one of those who walk the morning. What if all dark, discouraging moods of the human mind come across my way as thick as the dry leaves of autumn? Other feet have traveled that road before me, and I know the desert leads to god as surely as the green, refreshing fields, and orchards.

Life has two rules: #1 Never quit #2 Always remember rule # 1. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad

We would never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

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Anything I have ever done that was ultimately worthwhile, initially scared me to death!

A bend in the road is not the end of the road.

Thus it is that my friends have made the story of my life. In a thousand ways they have turned my limitations into beautiful privileges, and enabled me to walk serene and happy in the shadow cast by my deprivation.

when one door of happiness closes another opens but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

we could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

It is by fighting the limitations, temptations, and failures of the world that we reach our highest possibilities.