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Quotes About Adversity

Was there ever any question on how much I could take? You kept feeding me your bullshit hoping I would break.
~ Unknown
They say that God doesn't give you more than you can handle.Tell that to her.
~ Anna Akana, Surviving Suicide
Come now, Pendragon Princess. You didn't get dressed up to die, we both know that.
~ Unknown
Today he became a killer, or else a corpse.
~ Eoin Colfer, Airman
Satan will not ask you to carry a chair and sit with him, instead he will snatch the chair from your hands and dismantle your body with it.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
Rejoice, for bad things are about to happen.
~ Ryan Sohmer
Even if you are threatened with death, look at your situation right in the eye and praise the Lord
~ Sunday Adelaja
Poisons pain you Rivers are damp Acid stains you And drugs cause cramp. Guns aren't lawful Nooses give Gas smells awful You might as well live.
~ Dorothy Parker
When fate's got it in for you there's no limit to what you may have to put up with.
~ Georgette Heyer
Having in my life been bitten by the jaws of both victory and defeat, I must rush to add that success is to failure as butter pecan ice cream is to death.
~ Rupert Holmes
Metallica is like the phoenix rising from the ashes. We set everything on fire, and this is what has risen from it - 'St. Anger' being the fire and 'Death Magnetic' being the phoenix.
~ Kirk Hammett
Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.
~ Erik Spiekermann
Stumbling is not falling.
~ Malcolm X
It is often better to be restricted to necessity than unconfined in the measure of our desires: prosperity destroys more individuals than adversity ruins.
~ Norm MacDonald
Some have courage in pleasures, and some in pains: some in desires, and some in fears, and some are cowards under the same conditions.
~ Socrates
I remained dedicated to my desires, and it's what enabled me to come back after being fired seven or eight times, whatever it was.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I found out that the things that hurt us the most can become the fuel and the catalyst that propel us toward our destiny. It will either make you bitter or it will make you better.
~ T. D. Jakes
Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.
~ Rick Riordan
There's much to be said for challenging fate instead of ducking behind it.
~ Diana Trilling
When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.
~ Phil Collins
Every man meets his Waterloo at last.
~ Wendell Phillips
It is often in the trial of adversity that we learn those most critical lessons that form our character and shape our destiny.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
What destiny sends, bear! Whoever perseveres will be crowned.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder
Our lives are of great worth if we accept with good grace the situation Providence places us in, and go on living lovingly.
~ Unknown