Quotes About Adversity

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Be very careful to retain peace of heart, because Satan casts his lines in troubled waters.

Some are born to fail. Others have it thrust upon them.

We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

As the sea is beautiful not only in calm but also in storm, so is happiness found not only in peace but also in strife.

Be grateful even for hardship, setbacks, and bad people. Dealing with such obstacles is an essential part of training in the Art of Peace.

When you are ready to move on or if you come to peace with pain, you'll find a silver lining.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

Do not try to find a place free from temptations and troubles. Rather, seek a peace that endures even when you are beset by various temptations and tried by much adversity.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

True peace of mind comes from accepting the worst. Psychologically, I think it means a release of energy.

If we are surrounded by the trivial and the vicious, it is all too easy to make our peace with it.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.

Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.

Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side.

I have learned that peace is not the absence of trial, trouble, or torment but the presence of calm in the midst of them

It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

Money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace & conspire against it in times of adversity.

There are ultimately two choices in life: to fight it or to embrace it. If you fight it you will lose - if you embrace it you become one with it and you'll be lived.

One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible.

I've been on the side where you have nothing, and now I'm on the side where anything I want is there for me. When I didn't have the means to do whatever I wanted to do, I still had peace.

It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained.

Let the dark side of another does not affect our peaceful life.