I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties. – J.C. Penney
THe world now has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he’d carry would be aspirin. – Robert Orben
We have all ou us sufficient fortitude to bear the misfortunes of others. – La Rochefoucauld
Not every bad break is negative in the long term; not every problem is a bona fide injustice; and not every injustice is major when juxtaposed against the millions of injustices that occur daily throughout the world. – Robert J. Ringer Quote, “Getting What You Want”
A man with fifty problems is twice as alive as a man with twenty-five. If you haven’t got problems, you should get down on your knees and ask, “Lord, don’t you trust me anymore?” – John Bainbridge
The basic problem most people have is that they are doing nothing to solve their basic problem. – Bob Richardson
Crises force our attention on the disorder in our thinking and can save us as we teeter on the brink of an even greater disaster. – David McNally
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don’t blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. you realize that you control your own destiny. – Albert Ellis
Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you. – Mary Tyler Moore
Each problem has hidden in it an opportunity so powerful that it literally dwarfs the problem. The greatest success stories are created by people who recognized a problem and turned it into an opportunity. – Joseph Sugarman
Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know of no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater their power to harm us. – Voltaire Quote
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. – Robert Fulghum Quote
Everybody has a problem, is a problem, or lives with a problem. – Sam Shoemaker
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. – Dolly Parton
Life is a long lesson in humility. – James M. Barrie
Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional. – M. Kathleen Casey Quote
Count the garden by the flowers, never by the leaves that fall. Count your life with smiles and not the tears that roll. – Author Unknown
Problems are the price you pay for progress. – Branch Rickey
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. – Winston Churchill Quote
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. – Hugh Miller, Snow on the Wind
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones. And when you have finished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. – Victor Hugo
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. – Author Unknown
It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad. – La Rochefoucauld
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best you have to give. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Talking about your grievances merely adds to those grievances. Give recognition only to what you desire. – Thomas Dreier
Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. – J. Willard Marriott
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. – Francis Bacon
The darkest hour has only sixty minutes. – Morris Mandel
The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials. – Confucius
Show me someone who has done something worthwhile and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity. – Lou Holtz
Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance! – Fritz Reiner
God gave burdens, also shoulders. – Yiddish Proverb
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. – Harry Crews
Adversity is an experience, not a final act. – Michael LeBoeuf, M.C.
Has any man ever obtained inner harmony by simply reading about the experiences of others? Not since the world began has it ever happened. Each man must go through the fire himself. – Norman Douglas
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. – Mignon McLaughlin Quote, “The Neurotic’s Notebook”
I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. – William Stafford
Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. – Shakespeare
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I’ve bought a big bat. I’m all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
– Dr. Seuss
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them. – Bernard M. Baruch
Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was. – Dag Hammarskjold
There’s nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you. – Woody Hayes
In this life we will encounter hurts and trials that we will not be able to change; we are just going to have to allow them to change us. – Ron Lee Davis
It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. – Cicero
Character cannot be developed in peace and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. – Helen Keller
Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. – Truman Capote
It will always hurt to be laughed at, snubbed, ignored or attacked by others. But I would remind you that the human personality grows through adversity, provided it is not crushed in the process. – James Dobson
I know God will not give me anything I can’t handle. I just wish that He didn’t trust me so much. – Mother Teresa
If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. – Socrates
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him. – Martin Luther
How can something bother you if you won’t let it? – T. Guillemets
If you’re going through hell, keep going. – Winston Churchill
There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men. – Nicolas Chamfort
God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. – John Aughey
Adversity has the same effect on a man that severe training has on the pugilist: it reduces him to his fighting weight. – Josh Billings
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
– Percy Bysshe Shelley Quote, “Ode to a Sky Lark”
Rock bottom is good solid ground, and a dead end street is just a place to turn around.
– Buddy Buie and J.R. Cobb, from the song, “Rock Bottom”
Despair is anger with no place to go. – Mignon McLaughlin Quote, “The Neurotic’s Notebook”
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered. – Oscar Wilde
Problems are messages. – Shakti Gawain
Bygone troubles are good to tell. – Yiddish Proverb
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere’s Fan
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle. – James Russell Lowell , “Cambridge Thirty Years Ago”
I don’t like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn’t of much value. Life hasn’t revealed its beauty to them. – Boris Pasternak
Everybody ought to do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. – William James
You gotta play the hand that’s dealt you. There may be pain in that hand, but you play it. And I’ve played it. – James Brady
We have no right to ask when a sorrow comes, “Why did this happen to me?” Unless we ask the same question for every joy that comes our way. – Philip E. Bernstein
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter. – Unknown
A problem is a chance for you to do your best. – Duke Ellington
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing
Sometimes it’s worse to win a fight than to lose. – Billie Holiday Quote
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. – André Gide Quote, “L’immoraliste”
Every evil is some good spelt backwards, and in it the wise know how to read Wisdom. – Coventry Patmor
You’ll never find a better sparring partner than adversity. – Walt Schmidt
Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargained for. – Stanislaus I, Maxims
When life kicks you, make it kick you forward. – Unknown
Adversity enhances this tale we call life. – Ever Garrison
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. – Albert Einstein
There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. – Phyllis Battome
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory. -George S. Patton
Adventure is worthwhile. -Amelia Earhart
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful. -Joshua J. Marine
When life kicks you, don’t let it kick you over. – Kay Yow
I had a lover’s quarrel with the world. – Robert Frost, “The Lesson for Today”
Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. – Rainer Maria Rilke
Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive. – Josephine Hart
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. – Theodore Roosevelt
If the thunder is not loud, the peasant forgets to cross himself. – Russian Proverb
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. – Henry David Thoreau
When you have a problem, if you tell the truth, the problem becomes part of your past. If you lie, it becomes part of your future. – Rick Pitino
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