Adversity Quotes - Page 4

Experience may be hard but we claim its gifts because they are real even though our feet bleed on its stones.

Mary Parker Follett

And I think that's important to know how the water's gone over the dam before you start to describe it. It helps to have been over the dam yourself.

E. Annie Proulx

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Problems are the price of progress. Don't bring me anything but trouble.

Charles F. Kettering

Every time you meet a situation though you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the torture of the damned once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.

Eleanor Roosevelt

I have always fought for ideas - until I learned that it isn't ideas but grief struggle and flashes of vision which enlighten.

Margaret Anderson

I have learned in the great University of Hard Knocks a philosophy that no woman who has had an easy life ever acquires. I have learned to live each day as it comes and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Discontent and disorder were signs of energy and hope not of despair.

We say: mad with joy. We should say: wise with grief.

Marguerite Yourcenar

Suffering! ... We owe to it all that is good in us all that gives value to life we owe to it pity we owe to it courage we owe to it all the virtues.

It is only the women whose eyes have been washed clear with tears who get the broad vision that makes them little sisters to all the world.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Edwin H. Chapin

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Jung

Everybody's heart is open you know when they have recently escaped from severe pain or are recovering the blessing of health.

Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

Natalie Clifford Barney

To live is to suffer to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

If you suffer thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Suffering is also one of the ways of knowing you're alive.

Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.

Tennessee Williams

How sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened vision cleared ambition inspired and success achieved.

Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!

Edna Saint Vincent Millay

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.

Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.

Men strive for peace but it is their enemies that give them strength and I think if man no longer had enemies he would have to invent them for his strength only grows from struggle.

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.

Problems are the cutting edge that distinguishes between success and failure. Problems ... create our courage and wisdom.

It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.

Grenville Kleiser

When things come to the worse they generally mend.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Whitney Griswold

Remorse begets reform.

The world is a wheel always turning philosophized Mrs. Pelz. "Those who were high go down low and those who've been low go up higher."

Anzia Yezierska

It constantly happens that the Lord permits a soul to fall so that it may grow humbler.

Teresa of Avila.

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Anonymous

I have been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows with a harp and sword in my hands.

Zora Neale Hurston

There is often in people to whom "the worst" has happened an almost transcendent freedom for they have faced "the worst" and survived it.

I didn't know I'd have to be torn down before I could be built up.

Anonymous

Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Treasure the memories of past misfortunes they constitute our bank of fortitude.

If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

Necessity is often the spur to genius.

Honoré de Balzac

Necessity is the mother of "taking chances."

People wish to be settled only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

William Ellery Channing

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.

William A. Ward

I think there is this about the great troubles - they teach us the art of cheerfulness whereas the small ones cultivate the industry of discontent.

The thought that we are enduring the unendurable is one of the things that keeps us going.

If you do things well do them better. Be daring be first be different be just.

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.

John Neal

Difficulties opposition criticism - these things are meant to be overcome and there is a special joy in facing them and in coming out on top. It is only when there is nothing but praise that life loses its charm and I begin to wonder what I should do about it.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

They sicken of calm who know the storm.

Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of grace. The gift of grace increases as the struggles increase.

Saint Rose of Lima

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