Quotes About Adversity

Life is ever since man was born, licking honey from a thorn.

The art of living is more like that of wrestling than of dancing. The main thing is to stand firm and be ready for an unforeseen attack.

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is?

Humor enables one to live in the midst of tragic events without becoming a tragic figure.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

Although a lot can be learned from adversity, most of the same lessons can be learned through laughter and joy.

Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.

When we can laugh through our tears, we are being given a powerful message. Things may be bad, but they cannot be all that bad.

It's easy enough to be pleasant when everything goes like a song, but the man who is worthwhile, is the man who can smile, when everything goes dead wrong.

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you.

Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And - which is more - you'll be a man, my son!

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

There are some remedies worse than the disease.

Invalids live longest.

The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

He that is down need fear no fall.

Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows.

Misfortunes always come in by a door that has been left open for them.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it.

The worst is not sSo long as we can say "This is the worst."

The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized, vilified, and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness, and every man understands, too, that it is no proof of greatness.