Quotes About Adversity

First we are tested on our strengths, then we our strengths are tested

If you watch how nature deals with adversity continually renewing itself you can't help but learn.

Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

Despite being what would now be called a deprived child in a one parent family, I did not grow up with an urge to smash windows or to bash old ladies over the head in order to steal handbags.

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

Ninja Mom's have to learn that when they mess up, they get right back up again.

Ninja faith stands. It is not shaken when things seem contrary to what one expects. Ninja faith chooses to believe the truth.

The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it. . .

Often you shall think your road impassable, sombre and companionless. Have will and plod along; and round each curve you shall find a new companion.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Sometimes you just have to be patient and brave and strong. If you don't know how, just make it up as you go along.

A stumble may prevent a fall.

Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering and self-mastery.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

Affliction is a pill, which, being wrapt up in patience and quiet submission, may be easily swallowed; but discontent chews the pill, and so embitters the soul.

Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim. Have patience and endure; this unhappiness will one day be beneficial.

Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

Misfortune may become fortune through patience.

Thus with hir fader for a certeyn space Dwelleth this flour of wyfly pacience, That neither by hir wordes ne hir face Biforn the folk, ne eek in her absence, Ne shewed she that hir was doon offence.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?