Quotes on Adversity In Life

Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.

Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us.

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.

I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.

Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.