Pain frees you from complacency.Tears free you from sorrow.Weaknesses free you from pride.Adversity frees from boredom.Challenges free you from monotony.
When darkness comes,stars shine.When storms come,plants flourish.When adversity comes,champions triumph.
(n.) Opposition; contrariety.
As water downs ships but upholds leaves,and as fires burn cities but refines gold,so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin.
Often God has to shut a door in our face so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
Every experience however bitter has its lesson and to focus one's attention on the lesson helps one overcome the bitterness.
Forget the times of your distress but never forget what they taught you.
I would never have amounted to anything were it not for adversity. I was forced to come up the hard way.
My luck was my father not striking oil... we'd have been rich. I'd never have set out for Hollywood with my camera and I'd have had a lot less interesting life.
Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering. Because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
Enemies can be an incentive to survive and become someone in spite of them. Enemies can keep you alert and aware.
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a steppingstone in the path of the strong.
There are times in everyone's life when something constructive is born out of adversity ... when things seem so bad that you've got to grab your fate by the shoulders and shake it.
I have an inward treasure born within me which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford.
Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, every detection of what is false directs you toward what is true, every trial exhausts some tempting form of e...
As a rose blossoms despite being surrounded by thorns, bloom despite being surrounded by troubles.
Great tests precede great blessings.
It is at night, not in the day, that stars shine the brightest.
Prosperity is a great teacher adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind privation trains and strengthens it.
When a man is pushed tormented defeated he has a chance to learn something he has been put on his wits ... he has gained facts learned his ignorance is cured of the insanity of conceit has got...
Difficulties are things that show what men are.