Quotes about Adversity
Life is hard, we say. An oyster's life is worse. She lives motionless, soundless, her own cold ugly shape her only dissipation.
— MFK Fisher
Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, "Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade." To me, that's alchemy.
— Will Smith
Life is a test and this world a place of trial.
— Winston Churchill
Beautiful things happen in your life when you distance yourself from the negative things.
— Zig Ziglar
Notice how those who have medicated away their hardships with illegal drugs, alcohol, or sex can seem immature. They may look forty-five, but they have the character of an adolescent. Find a person who has weathered storms rather than avoided them and you will find someone who is wise.
— Edward Welch
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
— Elbert Hubbard
When life hands you lemons make lemonade ! After my cancer diagnosis this became my Moto and it got me though the worst of it! I came out ahead cancer free for five years so far !!!!!
— Elbert Hubbard
He who loses money, loses much; He who loses a friend, loses much more; He who loses faith, loses all.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, experience and confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along."… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
No man is defeated without until he is defeated within.
— Eleanor Roosevelt