Quotes About Adversity

Greatness, in so many ways, is determined by whether you persist through failure or let it consume you.

So it's like that old adage about seeing the cup as half full rather than half empty?" "That's a fair way to look at it. No matter what happens to you in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response

Sure." "Well, that happened

if the road gets tough and requires some patience, we think we're on the wrong path

As I told you earlier, pain is a powerful teacher. To transcend pain, I had to first experience it. I wouldn't be where I am today without it

course, when you show up like this, you will be misunderstood, unappreciated, criticized and perhaps even reviled for your blatant display of authentic brilliance. When this happens, remember these words of Winston Churchill: "You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

I too have walked this path, my friend. I too have felt the pain you have felt. Yet I have learned that everything happens for a reasons..... Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of physic rewards. Never regret you past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

Your advancement as a leader and your optimization as a person are built around the doing of difficult things. What is easiest to do is generally what is least valuable to do. Lasting transformation happens during our stormy seasons, never during the days of our ease.

how can you really know the joy of being on the summit of the mountain unless you have first visited the lowest valley.

Even the saddest of times make your life richer.

Get good at being uncomfortable and stop walking the path of least resistance.

La vida tenía que destruirte para que tú pudieras reconstruirte mejor.

For those showing up as victims each morning, and every day, the future will be very hard, dangerous and frightening because they won't know what hit them. And they'll be absolutely unprotected to deal with the environmental, economic and societal upheaval that is coming.

No hay errores en la vida, sólo lecciones. No existe una experiencia negativa, sino sólo oportunidades que hay que aprovechar para avanzar por el camino del autodominio.

todo revés aporta un beneficio igual si uno sabe buscarlo.

No matter where the hands of nature have now placed you, your past need not prescribe your future. Tomorrow can always be made into something better than today.

Una de las cosas más trágicas que pueden sucedernos es renunciar a vivir.

He tenido sueños y he tenido pesadillas. Superé mis pesadillas gracias a mis sueños.»

There is no such thing as objective reality or 'the real world.' There are no absolutes. The face of your greatest enemy might be the face of my finest friend. An event that appears to be a tragedy to one might reveal the seeds of unlimited opportunity to another. What really separates people who are habitually upbeat and optimistic from those who are consistently miserable is how the circumstances of life are interpreted and processed.

let me simply say that the place where your greatest discomfort lies is also the spot where your largest opportunity lives.

Reading each morning also inspired me, reminding me that no life, no matter how wonderful, is free of problems and challenges. The only individuals without any problems are those in their graves. Actually, it is the existence of problems and challenges that makes us bigger, stronger and wiser.

To live happier, more fulfilling lives, when we encounter a difficult circumstance, we must keep shifting our perspective and continually ask ourselves, "Is there a wiser, more enlightened way of looking at this seemingly negative situation?

Lo que la oruga llama fin del mundo, el maestro lo llama mariposa», escribió una vez el escritor y piloto de aviación Richard Bach.

Todo suceso tiene un porqué y toda adversidad nos enseña una lección. He comprendido que el fracaso, sea personal, profesional o incluso espiritual, es necesario para la expansión de la persona. Aporta un crecimiento interior y un sinfín de recompensas psíquicas.