Quotes About Adversity

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

Suffering does not discriminate.

Suffering from dysentery at sea was no picnic.

One of the things I'm learning is that crisis passes, and for anyone suffering I think it's important to know that.

We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.

You take the negative, the bitter, the pain, the suffering, the depression, and all of those are ingredients for something far more purposeful than you can imagine.

Personally, I had a close friend with cystic fibrosis. I won't ever forget how he handled himself. In the face of extreme challenges and very harrowing circumstances, he maintained a positive outlook and was just very dignified, even in his suffering.

Being knee-deep in sadness or suffering and refusing to look down - to me, that represents something more powerful than someone who's never gone through difficulty.

It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

One does not expect to be comfortable in prison. As a matter of fact, one's mental suffering is so much greater than any common physical distress that the latter is almost forgotten.

When something happens to you, suffering doesn't begin. Suffering begins at the instant you label a bad thing - as something that is wrong.

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.

To live in the midst of suffering, which we do, we do, amid distress, and to keep some equilibrium in the midst of that - that would be happiness enough.

I have been suffering for so long and didn't even recognize it. I just stopped doing so many things that I used to love to do due to my pain.

Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve.

Suffering does not change its face.

To those out there who are suffering from cancer, facing adversity, I want you to know that your will to live can make all the difference in the world.

The ox suffers, the cart complains.

Poor fellow, he suffers from files.

Even the accomplished suffers setbacks sometimes. The more bitter the lessons, the greater the successes will be.

There is nothing the body suffers the soul may not profit by.

Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.

I'd definitely say I'm a depressive, someone who suffers from depression.