Adversity as a Catalyst Quotes

Never let a good crisis go to waste

Good pain is pain in the service of a purpose. Bad pain is pain endured because we are resisting a needed growth step.

We must be challenged to improve, and adversity is the challenger.

I'll say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that's more than I can say for prosperity.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Adversity is the refiner's fire that bends iron but tempers steel.

Despite the obvious fault in the universe, it cannot be used as an excuse for not trying to be your best self. Instead, use unfairness as a starting point to be sure that your actions are the best you can muster, and find peace in navigating your time here with grace and humor whenever possible.

Adversity is an opportunity for self-discovery.

He knows not his own strength that has not met adversity.

There is no education like adversity.

Comfort and prosperity have never enriched the world as much as adversity has.

If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Where there are difficulties, there will always be opportunities.

Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.