The way we react to adversity can be a major factor in how happy and successful we can be in life.

Adversity is the source of our deepest growth and greatest blessings; embrace it, dare to seek it.

People are resilient. After all, every person born has recovered from nine months on life support.

Poverty, Frost, Famine, Rain, Disease, are the beadles and guardsmen that hold us to Common Sense.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.

Mentally strong people overcome setbacks with confidence because adversity only makes them better.

There's a lot of growing you can have when you're in adversity, when you're in a losing situation.

In all adversities there is always in its depth, a treasure of spiritual blessings secretly hidden.

Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

You do not want cricketers who are cowed by adversity, waiting for someone to tell them what to do.

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.

People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

You may feel singled out when adversity enters your life. You shake your head and wonder, 'Why me?'

If you voluntarily quit in the face of adversity, you'll wonder about it for the rest of your life.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail.

My soul has made its greatest growth as I have been driven to my knees by adversity and affliction.

Quickly say, "That's good!" to every setback and adversity, and then find out what is good about it.

I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian.

There will always be some curve balls in your life. Teach your children to thrive in that adversity.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.

Nevadans, and all Americans, are resilient. Overcoming adversity is a part of our national heritage.

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him.

Whatever is rightly done, however humble, is noble. (Quidvis recte factum quamvis humile praeclarum.)

In adversity assume the countenance of prosperity, and in prosperity moderate the temper and desires.

True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation.

It is in adversity that the good show their friendship most clearly; prosperity always finds friends.

Adversity is something that makes reaching your goals so much more rewarding than if it didn't exist.

Live on in your blessings, your destiny's been won. But ours calls us on from one ordeal to the next.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

We must...submit ourselves in adversity to the will of a merciful God as cheerfully as in prosperity.

Not everybody gets to play their first year or second year. Some people have to go through adversity.

The thrill of achievement comes from overcoming adversity in the accomplishment of an important goal.

Triumph over adversity that's what the marathon is all about. Nothing in life can't triumph after that

Too many parents make life hard for their children by trying, too zealously, to make it easy for them.

When you believe that your problem is caused by someone or something else, you become your own victim.

Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward

In this thing one man is superior to another, that he is better able to bear adversity and prosperity.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

I think I love most people best when they are in adversity; for pity is one of my prevailing passions.

I trust that God wouldn't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't have such faith in me.

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise.

With every adversity and trial comes the opportunity to grow stronger and learn from your circumstance.

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