Quotes about Adversity

Adversity relieves people of vanity and egotism. It discourages selfishness by proving that no one can succeed without the cooperation of others.

God will only push you off a cliff if He's going to give you wings to fly.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.

I am thankful for all those who said no to me. It's because of them I am doing it myself!

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.