Quotes About Adversity

Your skill, strength, and overall survival are offensive to some people. Those are definitely not your people.

Women helped each other in ways small and large every day, without thinking, and that was what kept them going even when the world came up with new and exciting ways to crush them.

Extraordinary storms turn average seamen into extraordinary sailors.

No one knows what you have been through or what your pretty little eyes have seen, but I can reassure you ~ whatever you have conquered, it shines through your mind.

Women are soft, loving, and kind. Do not mistake softness and kindness as weakness. Water is soft, but stone cannot break the water. However, water can break the stone.

The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows.

A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life's storms rage, you do.

A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.

A flower's beauty is birthed in a seed's ugly struggles.

Bad weather never stopped anyone from reaping a good harvest.

No matter how deep you bury good seeds, they always find a way to rise.

The weak dread the storm, the foolish invite the storm, the wise avoid the storm, the strong battle the storm, and the great overcome the storm.

Only dead leaves allow the wind to blow them to and fro.

A dove struggling in a storm grows stronger than an eagle soaring in sunshine.

Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.

Snails do not despair for having short legs, but rejoice for being able to travel long distances in spite of them.

A flower blooming in a storm is stronger than a tree blossoming under a rainbow.

The greater the fruit a trees bears, the greater the number of stones thrown at it.

If beautiful lilies bloom in ugly waters, you too can blossom in ugly situations.

The storm only comes to teach you how to skillfully sail your ship.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and use it to hang your troubles.

When the world told the caterpillar its life was over, the butterfly objected, "My life has just begun.

Every seed must rise through dirt to enjoy the sunshine.

It can't be done, " they told the caterpillar. "It can, " replied the butterfly.