Adversity Quotes
The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities my capacities.
Whenever there is chaos it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.
For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be a hundred or if I get to be a trillionaire.
Every failure made me more confident. Because I wanted even more to achieve things as revenge. To show that I could.
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
"The world is a wheel always turning " philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher."
There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.
Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.
Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word "travel" is derived from "travail " denoting the pains of childbirth.
Suffering has always been with us does it really matter in what form it comes? All that matters is how we bear it and how we fit it into our lives.
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.
And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.
Trouble is the thing that strong men grow by. Met in the right way it is a sure-fire means of putting iron into the victim's will and making him a tougher man to down forever after.
I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.
