Quotes about Adversity

Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not "This is misfortune, " but "To bear this worthily is good fortune.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life. Keep going. Tough situations build strong people in the end.

Every challenge, every adversity, contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.

One German officer lived in the house opposite ours. He had a room with the Kahn family. They said he was a charming man - calm, likable, polite, and sympathetic. Three days after he moved in he brought Madame Kahn a box of chocolates. The optimists rejoiced.

You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.

All right, I told myself. I'll also have to learn to eat. And to love. You can learn anything.

The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing; we were entirely among ourselves.

We were not afraid. And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it alone would have claimed hundreds of victims on the spot. But we were no longer afraid of death; at any rate, not of that death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life.

Suffering confers no privileges; it is what one does with suffering that matters.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.