Adversity Quotes

"Sometimes even to live is an act of courage." "Enemies are so stimulating. " "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection" "The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it" "There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult." "Sometimes we don't know what we're capable of until we get pushed and we have to push back" "Even without wars, life is dangerous and broken enough. Even in the ordinary, an ordinary life is filled with ordinary wars." "I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me" "I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures " "Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things." "For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled" "I wish it need not have happened in my time but so do all who live to see such times but that is not for them to decide All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" "You have to die a few times before you can really live." "When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane." "The way that you make people resilient is by voluntarily exposing them to things that they are afraid of and that make them uncomfortable" "Even from situations of challenge, from our mistakes, there grows the ability to be even stronger." "I've been scarred and battered" "Talent is formed in solitude, character in the stormy billows of the world" "The tree that would grow to heaven must send its roots to hell" "Every problem is a gift—without problems we would not grow."