Quotes about Adversity
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.
- William Osler
When you're blessed, the haters come out. When you wear God's blessings well, don't be surprised if it draws jealousy out on people.
- Joel Osteen
When we can sing in the face of death, we can sing in the face of anything.
- E Stanley Jones
I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.
- Bishop TD Jakes
We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.
- Anne Frank
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
- Andrew Carnegie
We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage.
- Theodore Roosevelt
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus
The greatest reverses of fortune are the most easily borne from a sort of dignity belonging to them.
- William Hazlitt
Let us not alter our course simply because it leads into a dark thicket of work.
- Brendon Burchard
When I was young I lost everything.
- Elie Wiesel