Quotes About Adversity

Everyone who has ever built anywhere a "new heaven" first found the power thereto in his own hell.

A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.

The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.

I laugh, for hope hath a happy place with me; If my boat sinks, 'tis to another sea.

There is no water and still less soap. We have no city, but lots of hope.

The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper and ink.

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

Hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated.

And I said to myself: That's true, hope needs to be like barbed wire to keep out despair, hope must be a mine field.

Do nothing and hope the enemy fades away.

The quickness and flexibility of a well mind, a belief or hope that things will eventually sort themselves out-these are the resources lost to a person when the brain is ill.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

Hope is a function of struggle.

I was never crippled until I lost hope.

You learn things in adversity that you would never have discovered without trouble. There is always a seed of hope.

It is hope, not despair, that undoes us all.

Hope is a decision we make, a choice to believe that God can take the adversity, the disappointment, the heartache, and the pain of our journeys and use these to accomplish his purposes.

Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown from his hope.

Hope is a psychological mechanism unaffected by external realities.

If it makes you feel any better, this isn't my first apocalypse. There is hope.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.

Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord.