Quotes About Adversity

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

It is wise for us to forget our troubles, there are always new ones to replace them.

For this is the mark of a wise and upright man, not to rail against the gods in misfortune.

I am old enough and wise enough and I have been around long enough to know that things will be said - and not nice things a lot of the time. And when you are doing well, nice things will be said.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress.

Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne.

Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

I had a lot of tough experiences at Bristol City. I came there for a few quid and was getting booed off by fans, got injured. I was out of the team due to injury but also because I was having an awful time playing wise. But they were amazing experiences.

We aren't always comfortable witnessing real frailty or vulnerability in our heroines, but I like characters who struggle, and doubt, and who don't always do the wise thing.

The most hateful human misfortune is for a wise man to have no influence.

We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.

In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.

My truth is that what doesn't kill you makes you weaker rather than stronger, although it makes you wiser.

Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

Failure and missteps help refine your character and make you wiser.

Let my son stay in jail a little longer. It will make him tougher and wiser.

The change that I never fall into is the, 'I'm-above-you-look-at-me-do-stuff-for-me change.' The change that I'm hoping I get to is where I become wiser, smarter - where I put myself in situations that don't have a huge potential for disaster.

Mistakes happen, and we must choose what to do with them. We can ignore them, or we can learn and evolve into someone better and wiser.

Before the injury hockey was everything in my life. Now I know even if I am out of hockey, there are other important things in life. I am confident, calmer and wiser now.

Jail just made me wiser. It made me smarter. It made me wake up to a lot of stuff. And also it made me a better businessman. I had to learn the music business. It just made me a better person as far as the way I live.