Adversity Quotes
Were there none who were discontented with what they have the world would never reach anything better.
As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.
Never complain about your troubles they are responsible for more than half of your income.
It is often hard to distinguish between the hard knocks in life and those of opportunity.
I think my biggest achievement is that after going through a rather difficult time I consider myself comparatively sane. I'm proud of that.
I think hearts are very much like glasses - if they do not break with the first ring they usually last a considerable time.
Your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble and you'll probably make it through the next one.
Our trials are tests our sorrows pave the way for a fuller life when we have earned it.
A clay pot sitting in the sun will always be a clay pot. It has to go through the white heat of the furnace to become porcelain.
It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings it is the soft luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams.
Unless a man has been kicked around a little you can't really depend upon him to amount to anything.
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.
If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship this pressure produces diamonds.
It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.
My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.
If you have been sunned through and through like an apricot on a wall from your earliest days you are oversensitive to any withdrawal of heat.
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
When I was very young I tried selling used cars. It didn't last long. I guess that was my good luck too that I didn't show more promise at it or I might have been an automobile dealer.
I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.
This struggle of people against their conditions this is where you find the meaning in life.
Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not.
Even if misfortune is only good for bringing a fool to his senses it would still be just to deem it good for something.
Never does a man know the force that is in him till some mighty affection or grief has humanized the soul.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm.
A woman is like a tea bag: you never know her strength until you drop her in hot water.
A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.
Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
It is from the level of calamities ... that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
I have always grown from my problems and challenges from the things that don't work out. That's when I've really learned.
