Quotes about Adversity
The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.
- Thomas Monson
Remember that just the moment you say, "I give up," someone else seeing the same situation is saying, "My, what a great opportunity."
- H Jackson Brown, Jr.
Every great leader of the past, whose record I have examined, was beset by difficulties and met with temporary defeat before 'arriving
- Napoleon Hill
Great hearts can only be made by great troubles. The spade of trouble digs the reservoir of comfort deeper, and makes more room for consolation.
- Charles Spurgeon
Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
- George W. Bush
I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
- Joel Osteen
Great people are not people who have never fallen down. Greatness has to do with how you get back up.
- Marianne Williamson
Adversity is prosperity to those who possess a great attitude.
- John Maxwell
If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.
- Mother Teresa
Envy is a spirit of dissatisfaction or opposition to the prosperity or happiness of other people.
- Jonathan Edwards
If we approach adversities wisely, our hardest times can be times of greatest growth, which in turn can lead toward times of greatest happiness.
- Joseph Wirthlin