Quotes on Adversity

Adversity in immunological doses has its uses; more than that crushes.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Through adversity we find our heroes.

Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.

Adversity cleanses the lethargies of man

It is not just a person's physical constitution, their intellegence, their education, or even their social conditioning that enables them to withstand hardship. Much more significant is their inner development. And while some may be able to survive through sheer willpower, the ones who suffer the least are those who have a high degree of patience and courage in the face of adversity.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

There is no education like adversity.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.

Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already.

I look like a down-and-out drunk who has been picked out of the gutter in the Strand.

I feel like an aeroplane at the end of its flight, in the dusk, with the petrol running out, in search of a safe landing.

We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known.

Dress your best on your execution day. Be extremely courteous to your assistant when you lose money. Try not to blame others for your fate, even if they deserve blame. Never exhibit any self-pity. Do not complain.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

We all travel different roads to our ultimate destinations. For some of us the path is rockier than for others. But no one reaches the end without feeling some form of adversity. So rather than fight it, why not accept it as the way of life? Why not detach yourself from the outcomes and simply experience every circumstance that enters your life to the fullest?

Braving obstacles and hardships is braver than retreat to tranquility.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.