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Quotes About Adversity

Let weakness learn meekness.
~ Unknown
Experience is the extract of suffering.
~ Arthur Helps
Every experience that you go through kinda shapes who you are.
~ Tiffany Villarreal
The people say that the two seemed to be removed from human experience; that they had gone through pain and had come out on the other side.
~ John Steinbeck
At first trouble is a new experience - gradually you learn that - that it isn't fatal.
~ Josephine Lawrence
My experience is that you can't possibly win against whatever the tidal wave is that's coming at you.
~ Lorenzo di Bonaventura
These things are sent to try us, but why me?
~ Lynda Bellingham
My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.
~ Mark Twain
Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need.
~ William Shakespeare
Fortunately I am a mentally strong person and believe I will learn from the experience and continue to improve as a player and person because of it. (on breaking his leg)
~ Michael Owen
Adversity is an experience, not a final act.
~ Michael LeBoeuf
If your education is not enough, experience will teach you lessons.
~ Narendra Modi
GLOUCESTERNow, good sir, what are you?EDGARA most poor man made tame to fortune's blows, Who by the art of known and feeling sorrowsAm pregnant to good pity.
~ William Shakespeare, King Lear
The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
What doesn't kill us makes a good story.
~ Marty Rubin
One day I had nothing but my childhood to defend myself..........
~ Sameh Elsayed
A challenging life isn't impossible to overcome, but it does mean that you might have to work a little harder to overcome it.
~ Karon Waddell
I've experienced a lot of crap in my life but the one thing that I have learned, is it is better to laugh about it rather than complain about it.
~ Karon Waddell
In the face of all his handicaps, Jurgis was obliged to make the price of a lodging, and of a drink every hour or two, under penalty of freezing to death.
~ Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
A secret life taught me: it doesn't get easier, you become stronger.
~ Asma Naqi
Resistance carves you into strength.
~ Steven Chopade
I pulled myself back before wind could knock me down. I survived the wind and my own person.
~ Manisha Bansal
It's easier to surrender to confinement.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake
For balance to be restored, lessons must be learned
~ Sameh Elsayed