In spite of discouragement and adversity, those who are happiest seem to have a way of learning from difficult times, becoming stronger, wiser and happier as a result.
We don't develop courage by being happy every day. We develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.
All interesting, worthwhile humans suffered and struggled and overcame adversity of one sort or another. Pain is constructive. Misery can be useful. I believed this the way I believe the sun rises in the east. Then I had children, and I slowly began to disbelieve and disavow it.
Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune.
Adversity is simply part of earth life. From it we can grow and progress if we choose to. Yes, some trials come because of our own disobedience, but many trials are simply part of life.
In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.
It is definitely true that adversity and hardship are not evenly distributed.
I'm a dogged person. I respond to adversity with a steely resistance.
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.
The reason why I called it 'I Told You' is because I wanted to show people that I have been doubted, and I have been in the face of adversity. Coming out of that situation, this is my 'I told you' moment.
A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
Fasting is, first and foremost, an exercise for identifying and managing adversity in all its forms. With faith, in full conscience, fasting calls women and men to an extra degree of self-awareness.
As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.
The Chinese nation is a great nation; it has been through hardships and adversity but remains indomitable.
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.
I've proven I can hang in there, go through adversity, and pull tricks out of the bag.
When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.
