quotations about adversity
Experiencing adversity is a great excuse for people not to take charge of their lives.
TIFFANY MASON
"4 Proven Ways to Overcome Adversity", PsychCentral, March 28, 2014
Those who choose to make adversity their friend don't enjoy hardship any more than the next person. But there is a world of difference between those who befriend adversity by overcoming it and learning from the experience, and those who give up at the first sign of an obstacle.... Adversity is going to happen, and usually in ways you could've never foreseen. Knowing this, make a choice right now to look at adversity in a new light the next time it comes your way. Though it may not look so friendly on the surface, realize that adversity is an ally and that it's here to teach you something of crucial importance. Of course it's an unwelcome visitor. But when it presents itself, treat the experience as a unique learning opportunity. Here is your chance to impact positively your human capital development in ways that no seminar, class, or training session can even closely approximate.
J. BARRY GRISWELL & BOB JENNINGS
The Adversity Paradox
One must not try to trick misfortune, but resign oneself to it with good grace.
ARISTOPHANES
The Thesmophoriazusae
Adversity is good if you handle it in the right way.
BRAD BERRY
"Denver finishes rare sweep of North Dakota with 4-1 win", Washington Times, February 14, 2016
A team with a short memory which can execute in the face of adversity is the team that wins.
JOCELYN SHEETS
"Chargers slip past Cardinals in substate final", Newton Daily News, March 1, 2016
Adversity is bitter, but its uses may be sweet.
BRAD THOMAS
"Life Lessons: Why I Own Kimco Realty", Seeking Alpha, February 18, 2016
Adversity is good. It purifies you. Just like fire -- you put gold in fire and it takes out the imperfections, right?
JAMES REIMER
"James Reimer stuck in the now as Leafs look to future", The Star, February 23, 2016
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venemous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
As You Like It
If afflictions refine some, they consume others.
THOMAS FULLER
Gnomologia
The flower that blooms in adversity is the most beautiful of all.
SUSAN R. STREET-BEAVERS
Chaplaincy: What in "H" Was I Thinking?
The worse our state of wretchedness, the more we are open to receive the blessings of happiness. Adversity is the only tutor of contentment. No man, unless his mouth has been embittered with gall, can taste the true savour of honey.
ANTHONY LISLE
The Westminster Review, Jan. 1914
Adversity is a test and a test reveals three things -- what you know; what you don't know; what you need to know.
HARRY L. REEDER III
"Alabama megachurch pastor: Here's how to vote with Christian wisdom", Yellow Hammer News, February 29, 2016
There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER
Proverbial Philosophy
Adversity often hatches out the true nobility of character.
GEORGE ADE
"The Fable of the Girl Who Wanted to Warm Up When It Was Too Late", True Bills
The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!
ERIK WEIHENMAYER
The Adversity Advantage