Quotes about Adversity

an entrepreneur's ability to find strength when others want to run, hide, quit, or blame someone else for their failures.

If you plan for the worst—if you can live with the worst—the good will always take care of itself.

What is the difference between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude toward it. Every opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity.

There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.

Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

The cross sometimes means the afflictions and trials which believers in Christ have to go through if they follow Christ faithfully for their religion's sake.

When days of darkness come upon us, let us not consider it a perplexing thing. Rather, let us remember that lessons are learned on such days that would never have been learned in sunshine. Let us say to ourselves, "This also is for my profit, that I may be a partaker of God's holiness. It is sent in love. I am in God's best school. Correction is instruction. This is meant to make me grow.

Experience," says the proverb, "is a hard school to attend, but fools will learn in no

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed.

Life doesn't just happen to you. It's all about choices and how you respond to every situation.