~ Adversity Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]It is not in the still calm of life or the repose of a pacific station that great characters are formed. ... Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I'm very grateful that I was too poor to get to art school until I was 21. ... I was old enough when I got there to know how to get something out of it.

Henry Moore

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch what make you go beyond the norm.

Cicely Tyson

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion most people would be content to take their own and depart.

Socrates

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld; or offered only at a price I cannot afford.

Charlotte Bronte

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Some minds seem almost to create themselves springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.

Washington Irving

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.

King Vidor

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]Hope begins in the dark the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.

Anne Lamott

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.... Set the allowance against the loss and thou shalt find no loss great.

Francis Quarles

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]The human race has had long experience and a fine tradition in surviving adversity. But we now face a task for which we have little experience the task of surviving prosperity.

Alan Gregg

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Helen Keller

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.

Anonymous

[MysteRy]

[highlight-text]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.

Louis L'Amour