Quotes about Adversity

Application: Applying what you've learned is sometimes difficult because it requires change. Most people change only when one of three things happens: they hurt enough that they have to, they learn enough that they want to, or they receive enough that they are able to. Your goal is to keep learning so that you want to change for the better every day.

A victim is a person who suffers a loss because of the actions of others.

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, I dont care how hard this is, I dont care how disappointed I am, I'm not going to let this get the best of me. I'm moving on with my life.

To myself, personally, it brings nothing but increasing drudgery and daily loss of friends.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

My friends, no matter how rough the road may be, we can and we will, never, never surrender to what is right.

He makes no friends who never made a foe.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.

When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.

When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.