Adversity Quotes

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it" "Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then" "If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem to be against us, we do not believe Him at all." "Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of." "Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof" "Life is an endless series of trainwrecks with only brief commercial-like breaks of happiness" "A man is the sum of his misfortunes." "Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation" "There is no doubt that life is given us not to be enjoyed but to be overcome to be got over" "We must not forget that we may also find meaning in life even when confronted with a hopeless situation, when facing a fate that cannot be changed." "Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises against the wind of adversity, not with it" "Just when you think it can't get any worse, it does. But I've learned that life is a balance. You can't have good without the bad." "Everybody loves warm and sunlit places, but to answer the sum of things, one must stand where the cold wind blows." "Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him" "Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold" "Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity." "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph" "To be alive at all is to have scars" "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials." "The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity."