Every disability conceals a vocation, if only we can find it, which will 'turn the necessity to glorious gain.
I love those who can smile in trouble...
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
In the darkest time, we are left alone to face the fate of life.
Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.
As rain does not bother the ocean, nor heat bother the sun, so adversity does not bother the great.
Let me not fear adversity.
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.
Down you mongrel Death! Back into your kennel!
Storms come to teach trees and plants how to dance in the wind.
In the pursuit of goals, you cannot give up anytime you feel un-comfortable.
The height of your storm determines the height of your rainbow.
No situation can enslaved us, if we are free in our mind.
Growth is ugly, it's hideous, it's all the things we don't like but my god, once you walk through the fire of confusion you will feel burning passion within your flame.
So it is more useful to watch a man in times of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn...
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
My mom has always just been one of those people who handle adversity and challenges, and really everything, with so much grace and elegance. I saw it all the time.
A rebirth out of spiritual adversity causes us to become new creatures.
He disposes Doom who hath suffered him.
It's during a storm that the best songs get written.
Hope is the thing that is left to us, in a bad time.