Adversity Quotes

"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool" "Any fool can sing in the day. It is easy to sing when we can read the notes by daylight; but he is the skillful singer who can sing when there is not a ray of light to read by." "Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties." "Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it." "The true enemy won't wait out the storm. He brings the storm" "The storms come and go, the waves crash overhead, the big fish eat the little fish, and I keep on paddling" "Despite your best efforts, people are going to be hurt" "What will you do if it happens again? Will you back down?" "I been through it all, the fails and the falls" "I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning." "The storm didn't pass over. It just changed shape" "Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble" "Necessity never made a good bargain." "You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself." "Keep going. Your hardest times often lead to the greatest moments of your life."