Quotes About Adversity

Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of

The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

No matter what happens, it is within my power to turn it to my advantage.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Happy is the man who can endure the highest and lowest fortune. He who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity has deprived misfortune of its power.

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man.

There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for yourself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.

My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was my mind, my imagination, my memory, my feelings, my spirit. These were important and powerful things.

To prevent the recurrence of misery is, alas! beyond the power of man.

Storms without rain. Winds without water. She woke, and when she sat up, the dust fountained off her and the voice that accompanied her once again stirred, once again whispered, "Get up. Keep walking. Don't stop.

The world is full of cactus, but we don't have to sit on it.

You don't really know anything about yourself until you've been forced to deal with pain, real pain.

If tough times seem to keep you down you might as well rest in peace." Will Robins

The best way out of a difficulty is through it.

Women are not the weak, frail little flowers that they are advertised. There has never been anything invented yet, including war, that a man would enter into, that a woman wouldn't, too.

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

Nothing makes a man broad minded like adversity.

The worst thing that happens to you. May be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you!!