Quotes About Adversity

Use the negative to get into the positive, don't wait for the positive to get you out of the negative.

We come here to overcome and it would have been unbecoming had it not been so.

Falling Doesn't Make You a Failure, Staying Down Does.

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Gut verloren – etwas verloren! Mußt rasch dich besinnen Und neues gewinnen. Ehre verloren – viel verloren! Mußt Ruhm gewinnen, Da werden die Leute sich anders besinnen. Mut verloren – alles verloren! Da wär es besser: nicht geboren.

Solo merece la vida y la libertad aquel que tiene que conquistarlas todos los días. Y así, rodeados de peligros, el niño, el adulto y el anciano viven provechosamente sus años. Quiero ver una multitud así, vivir en una tierra libre con un pueblo libre.

Ya üzülmeli ya gülmelisin, Ya örs olmal?s?n sen ya çekiç!

Kljuc Solomonov uvek pomaze kad polupaklen se izrod pokaze.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard there's nothing you can do.

My dear, old age is like an airplane flying in a storm. Once you're in it there's nothing you can do. You can't stop a plane, you can't stop a storm, you can't stop time. So you might as well take it easy, with wisdom.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Joey Albert: The hardest part was not being able to be emotional at all, and yet feeling all these great losses.

Negative people focus on what a problem has DONE TO THEM. Positive people focus on what THEY HAVE LEARNT from it.

While there may be thorns and disappointments, while there may be heartache, even heartbreak, there can be peace and comfort and strength from the Lord for those who follow Him.

So many of us make a great fuss of matters of small consequence. We are so easily offended. Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

We are winning the war against Satan, and the future has never looked brighter.

Rock Creek is sacred and holy ground. How tremendous their heroism in the face of odds that are almost impossible to understand. . . in terms of self-sacrifice, in terms of courage, in terms of faith, in terms of facing up to adversity, there is no greater example in the history of this nation. . . We have a great inheritance. . . a tremendous responsibility to live up to it. God bless us to be faithful, to be true to that which meant so much to those who died here. . .

That's the test, when all is said and done. Does it persuade one to do good, to rise, to stand tall, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be generous? Then it is of the Spirit of God. If it is dark, sinister, ugly, not good, then you may know that it is of the adversary.

Back in the days of the great Depression, an old sign dangled by one staple from a piece of rusting barbed wire. The owner of the farm had written: 'Burned out by drought, Drowned out by flud waters, Et out by jack-rabbits, Sold out by sheriff, STILL HERE.

great mysteries that the Poles have been able to keep their language, culture and religion alive despite inhabiting an area which has usually belonged to either Germany, Russia or Austria, or sometimes to all three.

Heroines did not pick their own battles—the ones they knew they could win. On the contrary, they managed what they had to manage, and they did not lie to themselves about relying on others for help instead of accomplishing the thing alone.

This was how people were able to do things when they didn't want to - they made themselves feel something else, like anger, more than the fear.

There are many things which cannot be imagined," the Chinese say, "but there is nothing which may not happen.