Adversity Quotes

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

- Anne Bradstreet

"The pain was absolutely unbearable. In fact, it was literally beyond words to describe, they had to invent a new word: excruciating. Literally, excruciating means 'out of the cross.' Think of that: they needed to create a new word, because there was nothing in the language that could describe the anguish caused during the crucifixion."

- Dr. Alexander Metherell

"His executioners made vulgar jokes about Him, called Him filthy names, taunted Him, smacked Him in the face, flogged Him with the cat, and hanged Him on the common gibbet—a bloody, dusty, sweaty, and sordid business."

- Dorothy L. Sayers

"The violence Jesus endured is seldom represented in a fashion that does justice to his suffering. He was taken into custody, stripped, and whipped by Roman guards. Men who strip another man do so not merely to harm but even more so to humiliate. Jesus’ naked body received not only the whip but the words of degradation. This was not merely a beating; it was sexual assault. God’s Son was subjected to the shame of abuse. He was the ultimate illegal alien, stranger, and refugee—the despised of the earth."

- Dan B. Allender

"On the cross, Jesus was cursed. He represented the covenant-breakers who were exposed to the curse and took the full measure of the curse upon himself. As the Lamb of God, the sin-bearer, he was cut off from the presence of God. On the cross, Jesus experienced forsakenness on our behalf."

- R.C. Sproul

"You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thought you’d experience."

- Taylor Swift

"Chess is the struggle against the error."

- Johannes Zukertort

"Chess is rarely a game of ideal moves. Almost always, a player faces a series of difficult consequences whichever move he makes."

- David Shenk

"The hardest game to win is a won game."

- Emanuel Lasker

"Chess is a curse upon a man."

- H. G. Wells

"It is no easy matter to reply correctly to [Emanuel] Lasker's bad moves."

- W.H.K. Pollock

"After a bad opening, there is hope for the middle game. After a bad middle game, there is hope for the endgame. But once you are in the endgame, the moment of truth has arrived."

- Edmar Mednis

"A player surprised is half beaten"

- Proverb

"You know you’re going to lose. Even when I was ahead I knew I was going to lose"

- Andrew Soltis

"When you play Bobby, it is not a question if you win or lose. It is a question if you survive"

- Boris Spassky

"There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess"

- H. G. Wells

"The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself from crime, violence, infamy, even at the cost of life. The struggle is the tragedy - not defeat or death."

- Whittaker Chambers

"It's your reaction to adversity, not adversity itself that determines how your life's story will develop."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit."

- William J. Clinton

"Wars based on principle are far more destructive... the attacker will not destroy that which he is after."

- Alan Watts

"You have to hurt in order to know. Fall in order to grow. Lose in order to gain. Because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain."

- J. Cole

"You don’t know about real loss because it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself."

- Robin Williams

"Challenges are what makes life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life."

- Jean-Luc Picard

"Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and sometimes you have no idea where to go or what to do. Lots of times people just let themselves get lost, dropping into a wide open, huge abyss. But that's why we have to keep trying. We have to push through all that hurts us, work past all our memories that are haunting us. Sometimes the things that hurt us are the things that make us strongest. A life without experience, in my opinion, is no life at all. And that's why I tell everyone that, even when it hurts, never stop yourself from living."

- Alysha Speer

"You see, the child I'm going to give her has a world of its own. She has to make it live in her world, and that's not going to be easy."

"There are two ways you can get through pain. You can let it destroy you or you can use it as fuel to drive you to dream bigger."

"Dear Monday, nobody likes you. Sincerely, Sunday"

- Unknown

"Sunday: The day we all pretend tomorrow isn't Monday"

- Unknown