Quotes About Adversity

The truth is, everything that has happened in my life... that I thought was a crushing event at the time, has turned out for the better.

The truth of the matter is the real story are the people who rise above all of this incredible cruelty. Otherwise that cruelty wins.

After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

In comparing your sorrows with mine, you may discover that yours are in truth nought.. and so shall you come to bear them the more easily grateful that they are not worse.

Know that however difficult experiences may be, they are part of the truth you seek.

People think that I'm tough and strong and that I kicked my way through everything. But they are wrong. The truth is that when I was young I was adorable and a trembling wreck.

I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.

It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

Was it always my nature to take a bad time and block out the good times, until any success became an accident and failure seemed the only truth?

Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.

… the world will indulge you just so long Asher Lev. Then it will stop. You will simply have to grow accustomed to that truth.

People come telling the truth. When I ask how thing are in the States, they don't give me the okeydoke. They say, "Honey, things are hard." It reminds me I have to keep struggling.

It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

It is an important part of our life's experience to develop the strength, courage, and integrity to hold fast to truth and righteousness despite the buffeting we may experience.

Everything in life has some good in it. And when something awful happens, the goodness stands out even more--it's sad, but that's the truth.

The truth of the matter is that the people who succeed in the arts most often are the people who get up again after getting knocked down. Persistence is critical.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

TIME and truth are friends, though there are many moments hostile to truth.

Some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic.

Real life's nasty. It's cruel. It doesn't care about heroes and happy endings and the way things should be. In real life, bad things happen. People die. Fights are lost. Evil often wins.

If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.

You should be prepared for anything during divorce proceedings - even the truth.

Losing fights, or even winning fights, can be heartbreaking, and you can throw that away, but the truth is that it does make our lives better.