Quotes About Adversity

Success is not about who never fails. It is about who can spring - or even stagger - back up.

The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without.

Life is 10 per cent what happens and 90 per cent how you deal with it.

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Hardship may dishearten at first, but every hardship passes away. All despair is followed by hope; all darkness is followed by sunshine.

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.

Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.

As the sea-crab swimmeth always against the stream, so doth wit always against wisdom.

If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.

It's not what life does to you but what you do to life that counts.

Our wounds ultimately give us wisdom. Our stumbling blocks inevitably become our stepping stones. And our setbacks lead us to our strengths

Sometimes one must try anything, it is no disgrace. On the contrary, it is a sign of wisdom.

Do not allow negative experiences to make you bitter. They should make you wiser, and with that wisdom you shall find joy.

Life is what you make it.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Keep your eyes wide open in the darkest of times. Only then you can rely on shooting stars.

But injustice breeds injustice; the fighting with shadows and being defeated by them necessitates the setting up of substances to combat.

Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?

Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

It's only useful to ask, what wisdom have you learned from your misjudgments that will help you going forward?

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

It's dead easy to die; it's the keeping on living that's hard.