Quotes about Adversity
Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race.
- Victor Hugo
One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.
- Ayn Rand
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.
- George W. Bush
Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells.
- Martin Luther
Good-humor makes all things tolerable.
- Henry Ward Beecher
If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.
- Napoleon Hill
Often we use the word problem only because we have not learned that imagination and creativity can handle the situation.
- Wayne Dyer
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
- CS Lewis
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
- Dolly Parton
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
- Vince Lombardi