Quotes About Adversity

When we come close to those things that break us down, we touch those things that also break us open. And in that breaking open, we uncover our true nature.

Nature is nobody's ally.

If Nature is against us, we shall fight Nature and make it obey.

The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison.

Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.

You don't really conquer a mountain, you conquer yourself. You overcome sickness & everything else - your pains, aches, fears - to reach the summit.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

People who contend with stressful situations regularly detect more opportunities of this nature than people who are living in pampered circumstances.

Hunger, thirst, cold, fatigue, your own physical and mental limitations - you will feel all of these. This teaches you about nature, more than that, you come face to face with yourself

We must laugh in the face of our helplessness against the forces of nature, or go insane.

A person's true nature is revealed at times of the greatest adversity.

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.

The course of our lives is determined by how we react--what we decide and what we do--at the darkest of times. The nature of that response determines a person's true worth and greatness.

And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years. It was always that way.

Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.

It is the nature of the unfortunate to be spiteful, and to envy those who are well to do.

Our life evokes our character. You find out more about yourself as you go on. That's why it's good to put yourself in situations that will evoke your higher nature rather than your lower.

Failure seems to be nature's plan for preparing us for great responsibilities.

It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.

Nature has a way of deadening us to traumatic events, until we're ready to deal with it. And once you do, it's a volcanic reaction.

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening.