2,568 Quotes About Adversity

Often the only difference between a problem being painful or being powerful is a sense that we chose it, and that we are responsible for it. We don't always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond.

Thank you adversity. Oh, how we stretch and grow in the shadows of darkness just to reach the light.

You will only learn in a fight how much you've got to learn.

You can strive in life with courage, faith and hope.

To solve a problem, you need to remove the cause, not the symptom.

Extraordinary storms turn average seamen into extraordinary sailors.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire – then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

The essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.

It is never prudent to bury our heads in the sand when in distress or faced with adversity; to place our hands over our eyes in a feeble attempt to hide from the inevitable.