Quotes about Adversity

Circumstances do not make you what you are, they reveal what you are.

No one can take from us the ability to choose our attitudes toward the circumstances in which we find ourselves. This is the last of human freedoms.

The strength and clarity of your vision will lift you out of the depth of any hardship.

Is your problem really your problem, or is it your attitude towards the problem that's your problem?

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.

Take the eighteenth-century general who had fallen into disfavor with the great Prussian warrior king, Frederick the Great. Coming upon the king, the general saluted him with the greatest respect, but Frederick turned his back. "I am happy to see that Your Majesty is no longer angry with me," murmured the general. "How so?" demanded Frederick. "Because Your Majesty has never in his life turned his back on an enemy," replied the general.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.

When we face with a steady eye the difficulties which lie before us, we may derive new confidence from remembering those we have already overcome.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal

Man will occasionally stumble upon the truth but most times he will pick himself up and continue on.