Quotes about Adversity
People don't really know whether they are committed to something until they face adversity.
- John Maxwell
I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
- John Milton
To be weak is miserable, Doing or suffering.
- John Milton
Courage consists in equality to the problem before us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Its hard to be a diamond in a rhinestone world.
- Dolly Parton
Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you. Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.
- Rick Warren
Too many times we're looking for ways to get around deep waters and dangerous fires, rather than through them. Has this ever been your experience?
- James MacDonald
Never worry about anything that is past. Charge it up to experience and forget the trouble. There are always plenty of troubles ahead, so don't turn and look back on any behind you.
- Herbert Hoover
You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it.
- Tina Fey
You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure.
- Maya Angelou
My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I try to learn from every experience, good or bad.
- Tim Tebow