Quotes About Adversity

It doesn't make any difference whether what you face is something that affects your work, your personal relationships, your sense of security, your appraisal of self-worth, or your appearance - the way you think about your situation largely determine.

It's not what you go through that defines you; you can't help that. It's what you do AFTER you've gone through it that really tests who you are.

As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Our years, our debts, and our enemies are always more numerous than we imagine.

Failure is defined by our reaction to it.

Every adversity in your life is presented as a response to your previously unresolved fears. This perfect system allows these subconscious undercurrents to be exposed and become conscious. By understanding and embracing this belief system you'll dissolve it and replace it.

Its not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.

Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.

Some days there won't be a song in your heart. Sing anyway.

I'm not afraid of storms for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

What poison is to food, self-pity is to life.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

During a set back, don't sit back in self pity instead tell your heart to beat again! Nothing that happens to you is a surprise to God.

Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.

Conservatives are all about self reliance until something goes wrong. Then they're all about finding someone else to blame.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.

I am learning that criticism is not nearly as effective as sabotage.

A person's worst enemy can't wish on him what he can think up himself.