Quotes About Adversity

Tragedies break us, yet sometimes they make us.

I was lifted from the darkness I endured into the person I am today.

Complaining is the qualifying trait of the Weak, to be disqualified by the Wise in every sense.

If it doesn't challenge you, it won't change you!

Always remember that you have been called worse things by better people.

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us in joy we face the storm and defy it.

He that seeks trouble always finds it.

Tragedy had its compensations. Once the worst misfortune occurred one never worried about the minor ones.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never afford himself.

You can either give in to negative feelings or fight them and I'm of the belief that you should fight them.

You can't be pessimistic because there are so many things that go wrong every day that if you were to be negative or pessimistic you'd go out of business.

The pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity the optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Am I like the optimist who while falling ten stories from a building says at each story "I'm all right so far"?

Positive Thinking Is Practical There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

If we choose to be no more than clods of clay then we shall be used as clods of clay for braver feet to tread on.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.

It is easy enough to be pleasant when life flows by like a song. But the man worthwhile is one who will smile when everything goes dead wrong.

My center is giving way my right is in retreat: situation excellent. I am attacking.

My disease is one of the best things that has happened to me it has pulled me out of a quietly desperate life toward one full of love and hope.

Anyone can have an off decade.

Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.