Quotes about Adversity

Remember, too, that all who succeed in life get off to a bad start, and pass through many heartbreaking struggles before they "arrive." The turning point in the lives of those who succeed, usually comes at the moment of some crisis, through which they are introduced to their "other selves.

Every adversity brings with it the seed of an equivalent advantage.

I was in a terrible mess in my childhood.

Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.

Mass celebrated on the hood of a jeep with shells bursting all around is as much the Mass as the liturgy celebrated in St John Lateran by the Bishop of Rome himself.

In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.

A man who fails well is greater than one who succeeds badly.

Where self-interest is the bond, The friendship is dissolved When calamity comes. Where Tao is the bond, Friendship is made perfect By calamity.

But true faith must be able to go on even when everything else is taken away from us.

by which the devil uses our philosophies to turn our whole nature inside out, and eviscerate all our capacities for good, turning them against ourselves. All

For some reason we human beings seem to learn best how to love when we're a bit broken, when our plans fall apart, when our myths of our self-sufficiency and goodness and safety are shattered.

Hardship often prepares an ordinary person for an extraordinary destiny.