Quotes About Adversity

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

Things are not as bad as it seems. The situations that cause us sorrow are the same ones that introduce us to the strength, power and wisdom that we truly are.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power.

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.

There must be some wisdom in the folk saying: Its the strong swimmers who drown.

There is a lot of difference between failure and defeat. Failure is when you are defeated and neither learn nor contribute anything.

Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

Failures give us wisdom. Your failures are just as valuable and rich with blessings. But you must be willing to contemplate them, ask what lesson they have for you, and apply it the next time around.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

Better to learn wisdom from other people's misfortunes than from your own.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

The great wisdom of life is that we can be masters of the things that try to enslave us.

Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright.

None of us can come to the highest maturity without enduring the summer heat of trials.

Drudgery, calamity, exasperation, want, are instructors in eloquence and wisdom.

Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

The only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. You either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.