Adversity and Growth Quotes

Depend on it, that from every condition of distress or evil there is a great reaction, and the greater the evil or distress, the greater the reaction. If we do not get a reaction quick, we will get it long when it does come.

Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow.

But I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.

Both success and struggle are different kinds of trauma.

There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.

The human being is a surprisingly resilient organism. We are impelled toward health not sickness. Your spirit, as surely as your body, will try to heal....So you should not fear tragedy and suffering. Like love, they make you more a part of the human family. From them can come your greatest creativity. They are the fire that burns you pure.

Adversity can strengthen us if it does not go on too long.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

To build character of purpose and integrity is our high mark, and that cannot be done in a world where there are no adverse elements.

Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

We need to remind each other that the cup of sorrow is also the cup of joy, that precisely what causes us sadness can become the fertile ground for gladness.

Some virtues are only seen in affliction and others only in prosperity.

All events are linked together in the best of possible worlds; after all, if you had not been driven from a fine castle by being kicked in the backside for love of Miss Cunegonde, if you hadn't been sent before the Inquisition, if you hadn't traveled across America on foot, if you hadn't given a good sword thrust to the baron, if you hadn't lost all your sheep from the good land of Eldorado, you wouldn't be sitting here eating candied citron and pistachios. - That is very well put, said Candide, but we must cultivate our garden.

To do great things, we need to be able to endure tragedy and setbacks. We've got to love what we do and all that it entails, good and bad. We have to learn to find joy in every single thing that happens.

. . . it is true, even people with painful childhoods. . . grow up to be more interesting people. So, there's always a positive to a negative.

For every level there’s another Devil.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.

They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad

What defines us is how well we rise after we fall.

Give thanks for sorrow that teaches you pity; for pain that teaches you courage.

The same rain that drowns the rat will grow the hay.