Victories Quotes

If there were no tribulation there would be no rest if there were no winter there would be no summer.

~ Saint John Chrysostom

If you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

~ Dolly Parton

If you want to see the sun shine you have to weather the storm.

~ Frank Lane

He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good.

~ Yiddish Proverb

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

~ John Mason Brown

If you will call your troubles experiences and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you you will grow vigorous and happy however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

~ John Heywood

If your house is on fire warm yourself by it.

~ Spanish Proverb

A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying long-time-no-see. If he hadn't broken your heart you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!

~ Phyllis Battelle

Anything other than death is a minor injury.

~ Bill Muncey

The most valuable gift I ever received was the gift of insecurity my father left us. My mother's love might not have prepared me for life the way my father's departure did. He forced us out on the road where we had to earn our bread.

~ Lillian Gish

Being disabled gave me an immense advantage. People are kinder to you. It puts you on a different level than if you go into a situation whole and secure.

~ Dorothea Lange

When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.

~ John F. Kennedy

From a fallen tree make kindling.

~ Spanish Proverb

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains losses and disappointments but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

~ Joseph Addison

To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.

~ W. Clement Stone

The same wind that extinguishes a light can set a brazier on fire.

~ Pierre De Beaumarchais

Other Definitions of Adversity Adversity is the touchstone of virtue.

~ Anonymous

Adversity is the first path to truth.

~ Lord Byron

Diseases can be our spiritual flat tires - disruptions in our lives that seem to be disasters at the time but end by redirecting our lives in a meaningful way.

~ Bernie S. Siegel

To say that my grief will be eternal would be ridiculous - nothing is eternal.

~ Marie Bashkirtseff

What the student calls a tragedy the master calls a butterfly.

~ Richard Bach

Our way is not soft grass it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards forward toward the sun.

~ Dr. Ruth Westheimer

Until you've lost your reputation you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

~ Margaret Mitchell

Failure is in a sense the highway to success inasmuch as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true and very fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterward carefully avoid.

~ John Keats

Although the world is full of suffering it is also full of the overcoming of it.

~ Helen Keller

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

~ Euripides

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

~ E. M. Cioran

It is only after an unknown number of unrecorded labors after a host of noble hearts have succumbed in discouragement convinced that their cause is lost it is only then that cause triumphs.

~ Madame Guizot

When you can't remember why you're hurt that's when you're healed. When you have to work real hard to re-create the pain and you can't quite get there that's when you're better.

~ Jane Fonda

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

~ William Shakespeare

However confused the scene of our life appears however torn we may be who now do face that scene it can be faced and we can go on to be whole.

~ Muriel Rukeyser

In adversity remember to keep an even mind.

~ Horace

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender that is strength.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

~ Martin Luther King

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump you may be freeing him from being a camel.

~ G. K. Chesterton

I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

~ Michel De Montaigne

Adversity is like the period of the rain ... cold comfortless unfriendly to man and to animal yet from that season have their birth the flower the fruit the date the rose and the pomegranate.

~ Sir Walter Scott

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.

~ Reinhold Niebuhr

The virtue of adversity is fortitude which in mortals is the heroical virtue.

~ Francis Bacon

To turn an obstacle to one's advantage is a great step towards victory.

~ French Proverb