逆境代表着：苦难、挫折、失败、困难等，当你面对这一切的时候，需要有一颗强大的心，我们的生活就是时刻需要锤炼强大内心的过程，很多拥有丰富人生经历的伟人们为我们在逆境中提供了很多的帮助。

1.Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.– Samuel Ullman, Poet

「成熟就是在有尊严的范围内，思考并将你的感觉化为语言与行为的能力。你在挫折之中展现出的心灵精神，是你成熟度的衡量依据。」– 塞缪尔.乌尔曼 (诗人)

2.Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.– Horace, Poet

「逆境可以引出一个人的才能，它在富足的环境只是潜伏著。」– 贺拉斯 (诗人)

3.Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on Earth.– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Writer

「痛跟苦难对智慧与心量的养成，是无可避免的。那些真正伟大的人，我觉得，一定都有很难受的经历。」– 费奥多尔‧陀思妥耶夫斯基 (作家)

4.In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.— Robert Collier, Author

「每个逆境都有一粒种子，藏着对等的有利条件;每个挫败都有一个教训，教你下次如何取得胜利。」– 罗伯特.柯里尔 (作家)

5.Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn’t happened first.— Suze Orman, Financial Adviser

「若坏事没有先发生，许多好的事情永远不会发生。」– 苏茜·欧曼 (财理顾问)

6.Men’s best successes come after their disappointments.— Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

「人们最大的成功来自于失望过后。」– 亨利‧毕杰 (传教士)

7.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, Playwright

「如果你把麻烦当作经验，并记得每个经验都会发展为你内在的潜伏力量，你将变得精力充沛且快乐，不管环境看来多么的不顺。」– 约翰.海伍德 (剧作家)

8.You can’t stay relevant unless you’re pushing yourself out onto the razor’s edge of life on a regular basis. Once you become comfortable, you become complacent. If you become complacent, then you don’t want to throw yourself into the icy cold water. You just want to sit in the sun.— Madonna, Singer

「除非定期把自己推向险境，你无法维持与生命的连结。一旦感到安逸，你就会变得自满。你如果自满，就不会投身至冰冷的水里，而只会想坐在阳光下。」– 玛丹娜 (歌手)

9.Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.— Henry Ford, Industrialist

「人生是一连串的经验，每个经验都让我们进步，即使有时候这不容易理解。这个世界是为了陶冶性格而存在，我们必须了解，我们所忍受的挫折及悲痛，都帮助我们向前迈进。」– 亨利‧福特 (工业家)

10.Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it.— Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister

「风筝逆着风飞得最高，不是顺着风。」– 温斯顿‧邱吉尔 (英国首相)

11.Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.— Helen Keller, Lecturer

「虽然这世界充满苦难，但也充满克服苦难的故事。」– 海伦‧凯勒 (演说家)

12.Fresh air and innocence are good if you don’t take too much of them – but I always remember that most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court

「只要你不沉浸在那，轻松的生活与单纯的环境是不错的 – 但我总记得，人生多数的成就及快乐是出自于奋斗的生活。」– 奥利佛‧温德尔‧霍姆斯 (最高法院大法官)

13.Storms make oaks take deeper root.— George Herbert, Priest

「暴风雨使橡树的根长得更深。」– 乔治‧赫伯特 (牧师)

14.Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.— Amos Bronson Alcot, Educator

「我们最好的教训不是透过成功而学到，而是透过不幸的遭遇。」– 爱默斯‧布朗森‧爱尔考特 (教育家)

15.Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.— Washington Irving, Author

「微小的人被恶运所驯服并压制，但伟大的人克服恶运。」– 华盛顿‧欧文 (作家)