Quotes About Adversity

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

It's the impeded stream that sings

Those who would learn must suffer. In our own despair, against our will, wisdom comes to us.

From now on practice saying to everything that appears unpleasant: You are merely an appearance and NOT what you appear to be.

The elderly have weathered enough squalls to know that this one, too, shall pass. They own the courage to be original; they've learned to hold their own values above the conventional wisdom.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.

There was a point that I stopped crying. It's not just because I didn't feel pain anymore, not because I didn't feel sorrow. It was just to keep going. I mean, it just was to survive, to live.

Swallow what's bitter in the cup and move on.

In life, the hardest decisions often have to be made more than once. But each time, it gets easier.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

Sometimes wisdom comes from suffering, and sometimes suffering comes from wisdom.

Wisdom can't prevent the storm.

Circumstances may accumulate so strongly even against an innocent man, that directed, sharpened, and pointed, they may slay him.

Wisdom cannot prevent a fall, but may cushion it.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.

Have I yet to learn that the hardest and best-borne trials are those which are never chronicled in any earthly record, and are suffered every day!

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go.

Whoever is sitting with friends is in the midst of a flower garden, though he may be in the fire. Whoever sits with an enemy is in the fire, even though he is in the midst of a garden.

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.