Quotes About Adversity

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The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

You've got to use it, the pain. Use it as fuel to move past the torment, to the light at the end of the tunnel

Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.

Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.

Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!

God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

igual que las severas heladas en el invierno conducen a las flores en la primavera, y al igual que la noche da lugar a la estrella de la mañana, así también los males de la aflicción producen mucho bien a aquellos que aman a Dios.

Better is that temptation which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.

After a bitter pill, God gives sugar.

You can be discouraged by failure--or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success. On the far side.

Why do we fall? So we can get back up again.

There is no defense against adverse fortune which is so effectual as an habitual sense of humor.

We must just keep on and on until the mountains themselves crumble from nausea or we learn to scale them and cool our hands in the sky.

XV - Grandfather Frog Gives Up Hope XVI - The Merry Little Breezes Work Hard XVII - Striped Chipmunk Cuts the String XVIII - Grandfather Frog Hurries Away XIX - Grandfather Frog Jumps into More Trouble XX - Grandfather Frog Loses Heart XXI - The Merry Little Breezes Try to Comfort Grandfather Frog XXII - Grandfather Frog's Troubles Grow XXIII - The Dear Old Smiling Pool Once More I

Peter, I would hate to have Lightfoot try

trying to dig it larger. He knew there wasn't room enough for him to get between those roots.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

She had been through hard straits herself and assumed that persons of quality did not discuss them. Steel exists to support pressure.

we came through the depression by the skin of our teeth;

War's a pleasure—do you hear me?—War's a pleasure compared to what faces us now: trying to build up a peacetime with you in the middle of it.