Quotes About Adversity

After spending my life thinking I was an architect, I was a sailor adrift at sea.

Not that thick book called The Purpose of Your Life. You get that one later. These are "How To" manuals. Each is called Getting By When You're Up The Creek Without a Paddle, Fighting Back When You're Sick of Getting Pushed Around, Love—What It is and How to Survive It, or How to Keep From Going Crazy When Everyone Around You Already Is.

Leaders require courage of the highest order -- always moral courage -- and often physical courage as well. Courage is that quality of mind that enables people to encounter danger or difficulty firmly, without fear or discouragement.

My father left... but I tell my mom - and I told my mom this when I was a kid - I said, 'You know what, Mom? Good thing he left because you're a strong woman.'

It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.

The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.

My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.

Life only demands from you the strength you possess. Only one feat is possible - not to have run away.

That we have great men in our time and recent times is not because of our educational system, but rather in spite of it. They are the ones the teachers couldn't spoil.

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

in hard times hope itself is a discipline because we have to work on it every day but I also think if we don't find hope as a discipline it is a self-fulfilling problem

Human beings are inherently endowed with the power to bring out the best possible results from the worst possible circumstances.

The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission.

Also, times when you are suffering intensely, when you don't know what to do or which way to turn, can become important opportunities for making great strides in your human revolution. If you tend to be easily discouraged, just refresh your determination each time that happens.

When facing adversity, we may think we've reached our limit, but actually the more trying the circumstances, the closer we are to making a breakthrough. The darker the night, the nearer the dawn. Victory in life is decided by that last concentrated burst of energy filled with the resolve to win.

Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.

defeat for a Buddhist lies not in encountering difficulties but rather in not challenging them. Difficulties only truly become our destiny if we run away from them.

I know there must be any number of people in the world today much sicker than I ever was. I would appeal to such people to face their trials with a firm, undespairing heart and to never surrender in their battle with disease. And this applies not only to disease: No matter what kind of difficult situations one finds oneself in, some opportunity, some opening, can always be found to fight one's way out. The important thing is always to have hope and to face the future bravely.

shine brightly, we can overcome all adversity with calm composure. That inner sun is the life state of Buddhahood.

Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy" (WND

No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.