Quotes on Overcoming Hardship

Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?

Brick walls are there for a reason. They give us a chance to show how badly we want

Opposition is a natural part of life. Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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.

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

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls aren't there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want things.

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

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.