Quotes on Overcoming Adversity

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

There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

If you don't like your situation in life, don't fret or worry--do something about it. Worry less, and act more.

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

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.

Beautiful people do not just happen

If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it.

Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

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

If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

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

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.