Quotes about Adversity

"Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it."

6. All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

This life…is what you make it. No matter what you are going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is, you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends — they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything — They're your true best friends. Don't let go of them.

A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

But there, in her diminishment, she seemed to resemble only herself, as if suffering finally had singled her out.

The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest towards the open beach.

Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight