Quotes About Adversity

What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain.

The truth is that the naysayers in your life can never be fully satisfied. Whether you hide or shine, they'll always feel threatened because they don't believe they are enough.

Who you're meant to be evolves from where you are right now. So learning to appreciate your lessons, mistakes, and setbacks as stepping-stones to the future is a clear sign you're moving in the right direction.

Ketika hidup sedang memperlakukan Anda dengan baik dan sepertinya Anda tidak bisa salah langkah, selalu akan ada orang-orang yang ingin menumpang di limosin Anda. Tetapi yang benar-benar Anda inginkan adalah orang-orang yang bersedia naik bus bersama Anda ketika limosin sedang mogok.

every experience is a valuable teacher.

If, the first two months of life, a child experienced high adversity with minimal relational buffering but was then put into a healthier environment for the next twelve years, their outcomes were worse than the outcomes of children who had low adversity and healthy relational connection in the first two months but then spent the next twelve years with high adversity

Everything that happened to you can be used to strengthen you, if you allow it, if you're open to it.

Maya Angelou was so right. Whatever you're going through, you will do just that: go through it. It will pass. So say thank-you now. Because you know the rainbow is coming.

The true measure of your courage is not whether you reach your goal—it's whether you decide to get back on your feet no matter how many times you've failed.

Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.

for a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.

Không có ni?m h?nh phúc nào lá»›n hÆ¡n khi m?t ??i m?t vá»›i chính sá»± t?i tàn và kh?n kh? c?a mình

Los jóvenes aún puede sentir curiosidad y apetito por todo porque todavía no se han llevado ninguna bofetada de la vida

Life can't be all that bad. Whatever happens, I can always take along the Bosphorus.

What we do when defeat stares us in the face is the real touchstone of character. But the very fact that success has time and again proved the means of awakening people to the knowledge of greater ability than they ever before dreamed they possessed, ought to hearten and encourage us to keep on no matter how often we fail. If we brace ourselves and continue to push forward we will ultimately win out. (From Everybody ahead, or getting the most out of life)

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

Let the adverse breath of criticism be to you only what the blast of the storm wind is to the eagle,—a force against him that lifts him higher.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them… they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will slink out of sight.

Nature, when she adds difficulties, adds brains. —Emerson. Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them. —Wendell Phillips. Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. —Spurgeon. The rugged metal of the mine Must burn before its surface shine. —Byron.

Adversity exasperates fools, dejects cowards, draws out the faculties of the wise and industrious, puts the modest to the necessity of trying their skill, awes the opulent, and makes the idle industrious. Neither do uninterrupted success and prosperity qualify men for usefulness and happiness. The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties, and excite the invention, prudence, skill and fortitude of the voyager.

The darker the setting, the brighter the diamond.

Men who have done great things, made stepping stones of their failures. The disgrace is not in falling, but in not rising every time you fall.

Columbus was carried back to Spain in chains, and a pickle dealer of Seville, who never rose above the position of mate of a schooner, gave his name to the world Columbus had discovered.

A man should be so much greater than any material failure that can come to him that it would scarcely be mentioned in his biography, and that it would be regarded as a mere incident in his career,—inconvenient, but not very important