Quotes About Adversity

Holding on to hope when everything is dark, is the greatest test of faith

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

Hope for the best, get ready for the worst, and then take what God chooses to send.

He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

If intimidation is your game plan, I hope you have a better one.

They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.

Courage is as often the outcome of despair as of hope; in the one case we have nothing to lose, in the other everything to gain.

Only by seeking challenges can we hope to find the best in ourselves.

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.

Having a dream, living that dream, losing that dream, dreaming again and then having that dream come true again is one of the greatest feelings ever because I'm stronger.

Hope gives us the courage to confront our circumstances and the capacity to surmount them.

I have learned there is a gift wrapped inside of every adversity and, if you have faith and hope, you can lose everything and still survive.

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.

Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.

It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.

No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

Be not discouraged. There is a future for you. . . . The resistance encountered now predicates hope. . .

[E]ven if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except that God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow.

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

In the face of adversity, hope often comes in the form of a friend who reaches out to us.