Quotes About Adversity

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.

What the caterpillar calls a tragedy, the Master calls a butterfly.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Tears mess up your makeup.

Nothing is so bad that you have to sit down and go crazy.

Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us.

Boys, this is only a game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help you and you will come out well.

Sometimes only a change of viewpoint is needed to convert a tiresome duty into an interesting opportunity.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

If you have to be in a soap opera, try not to get the worst role.

On the occasion of every accident that befalls you ... inquire what power you have for turning it to use.

All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable.

Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way, it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.

To a brave man, good and bad luck are like his right and left hand. He uses both.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties. You alter the difficulties or you alter yourself to meet them.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it.

Boys, this is only game. But it's like life in that you will be dealt some bad hands. Take each hand, good or bad, and don't whine and complain, but play it out. If you're men enough to do that, God will help and you will come out well.

Life consists not in holding good cards, but in playing those you do hold well.

This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.