2,568 Quotes About Adversity

What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.

Adversity allows us to become better rounded, richer in experience, and to strengthen our inner resources.

I can't control the wind but I can adjust the sail.

The soul gets tougher with every endure situation.

With a perseverance spirit, you withstand any situation.

In every situation, there is a sacred answer.

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn.

If all were perfect, what should we have to suffer from others for God's sake? But God has so ordained, that we may learn to bear with one another's burdens, for there is no man without fault, no man without burden, no man sufficient to himself nor wise enough. Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise, for the measure of every man's virtue is best revealed in time of adversity -- adversity that does not weaken a man but rather shows what he is.

We need a road of trials, a succession of ordeals, to provide the resistance we must overcome in order to become moral (rational), which is to say intelligent. If we met no resistance, there would be no need for us to evolve. For a system to evolve into God, it needs the maximum possible resistance – it needs the Devil. The “world” is Satanic in order that we must become God to overcome it.