Quotes about Adversity
the truth is that we are not positive because life is easy. We are positive because life can be hard.
— Jon Gordon
What can I learn from this challenge? What is it teaching me? Then he would stay positive and trust that the lessons would make him stronger, wiser, and better.
— Jon Gordon
Every crisis offers an opportunity to grow stronger and wiser; to reach deep within and discover a better you that will create a better outcome. So while this is your crisis, what matters most is what you do with it.
— Jon Gordon
Every problem has a gift for you in its hands as my man Richard Bach says. You can choose to see the curse or the gift. And this one choice will determine if your life is a success story or one big soap opera.
— Jon Gordon
The character you possess during the drought is what your team will remember during the harvest.
— Jon Gordon
True virtue never looks so lovely as when it is most oppressed, and the divine excellence of real Christianity is never demonstrated as clearly as when it faces trials.
— Jonathan Edwards
Licitis perimus omnes
— Jonathan Edwards
It is difficulties that show what men are.
— Epictetus
Ruin and recovery are both from within.
— Epictetus
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.
— Epictetus
Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.
— Epictetus
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
— Epictetus