Quotes About Adversity

Adversity will surface in some form in every life. How we prepare for it, how we meet it, makes the difference. We can be broken by adversity, or we can become stronger. The final result is up to the individual'.

With God's help, good cheer permits us to rise above the depressing present or difficult circumstances. … It is sunshine when clouds block the light. Ensign, May 1986

Her tenacity resembles nothing so much as a decapitated gila monster whose severed head still clings to the victim it has bitten. - (Our Late Visitor)

In truth, fear is the power [of darkness]. So if you are afraid of what is about to come upon you, it will overwhelm you, and not one among them will spare you or show you mercy.

Friendships were easy when life was going smoothly. What was hard was to be there for your friend when life got rough and the friendship was neither easy nor fun. The challenge was to forgive the friend when she failed.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I'll try again tomorrow.

One unfortunate Greek ambassador at about the same time is known to have fallen into an open Roman sewer and broken his leg – and made the most of his convalescence by giving introductory lectures on literary theory to a curious audience.

everything works out for the best and that every reverse in life carries the seeds of something better in the future.

It's easy to be definite if you haven't faced a situation.

Don't get your drawers in a twist,' was one of her favourite phrases, 'or you'll find yourself bum-bare in the market-place . . . .

Dear child, there are few problems in life which kindness and common sense cannot make simple and manageable.

A barely tolerable world became unbearable.

It's how we handle those bad things that measures our worth.

I wasn't counting on this fight." "We rarely count on the ones we're forced to face.

Sometimes you had to fight the bullies, even if they masqueraded in the form of family.

But God doesn't make bad things happen or necessarily stop them from happening. What He does do is give us strength to understand and persevere, learn from and through the tragedy.

The Lord only gives us what we can handle and

I think this journal will be disadvantageous for me, for I spend the time now like a spider spinning my own entrails.

I will not shrink from undertaking what seems wise and good, because I labor under the double handicap of race and sex; but, striving to preserve a calm mind with a courageous, cheerful spirit, barring bitterness from my heart, I will struggle all the more earnestly to reach the goal.

Disappointments are to the soul what the thunder-storm is to the air.

I'm so unlucky that if I was to fall into a barrel of nipples I'd come out sucking my thumb.

When things are down it'll all turn around. When things are up, you gotta throw the hammer down.

If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava, let'em go, because, man, they're gone.

She [Sadie Thompson] was a girl who knew how to be gay even when she was sad. And that's important--you know?