Quotes About Adversity

Fear not; calm will follow the storm, and perhaps soon.

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, no more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

We are inclined to call things by the wrong names. We call prosperity 'happiness', and adversity 'misery' eventhough adversity is the school of wisdom and often the way to eternal happiness.

Welcome the challenges. Look for the opportunities in every situation to learn and grow in wisdom.

Life is not about negative circumstances that happen to you, it's about what you do with the golden opportunities hidden within!

When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.

The nail that sticks out farthest gets hammered the hardest.

When every situation which life can offer is turned to the profit of spiritual growth, no situation can really be a bad one.

There is no such thing as an acceptable level of unemployment, because hunger is not acceptable, poverty is not acceptable, poor health is not acceptable, and a ruined life is not acceptable.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their success

We learn from failure, not from success!

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.