Quotes about Adversity
A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.
- John Maxwell
Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
You don't drown by falling in water. You only drown if you stay there.
- Zig Ziglar
Problems are not my problem. It's not what happens to me but what happens in me that matters.
- John Maxwell
When the negative thoughts come - and they will; they come to all of us - it's not enough to just not dwell on it... You've got to replace it with a positive thought.
- Joel Osteen
When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn
- Jon Gordon
Our attitude can turn our problems into blessings.
- John Maxwell
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
- Paulo Coelho
Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.
- Oprah Winfrey
Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
- Gordon Hinckley
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
- Helen Keller
No one can defeat us unless we first defeat ourselves.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower