Quotes About Adversity

If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. The Bible, Proverbs

The truth of God's love is not that He allows bad things to happen, it's his promise that he will be there with us--when they do.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become...Little kids don't have to learn it. They already know.

The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

Life gave you problems. It was your responsibility to rise above them.

Yesterday you asked me what the purpose of life is. I've thought about that ever since. I think it's to do good no matter what life throws at you, to not let the pain turn you bitter. It's something we have to learn, something we have to make ourselves become.

I grew up in an abusive home and was told on a daily basis by my father that I would never amount to anything and that I looked like a boy.

C'était précisément ce que je commençais à remarquer de mon côté : comment tout était lié, comment les mauvaises choses qui se produisaient parfois débouchaient finalement sur de bonnes surprises.

This was exactly what I was starting to notice: how everything was related, how the bad things that happened sometimes led to good things later" -Emma

May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my grandmother's teeth. Irish proverb

For every storm, a rainbow, for every tear, a smile.

Down on me, down on me,Looks like everybody in this whole round worldIs down on me.

It's tragic how the lack of imagination so often shapes our defeat.

There is no terror so powerful as the one never faced.

You can't let your past write the future

Bo przykro, gdy kto? kopnie to, co ty kochasz. A ludzie teraz i niecierpliwi, i roztargnieni, i cz?sto mówi? wcale nie to, co chc?, i robi? wcale nie to, co chc?, a ot tak, co zdarzy si? akurat.

Ours is a world where some people are destined to triumph even in defeat, especially if they do not betray themselves."

Stubbornness is the bearer of disaster…"

The vicissitude of life teaches us about our limitations in a world with no guarantees and permanence.

True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success."

Calamities are only calamities if you define them as such; in reality there are only events and all events can be useful.

Adversity is the foundation of virtue

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Proverb : Fall seven times and stand up eight Meaning :When life knocks you down, stand back up;