Quotes About Adversity

Not much more can happen to you after you lose your reputation and your wife

The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

There will always be people in life who treat you wrong. be sure you thank them for making you strong.

Cherish and be thankful for everything you have because there are so many people out there who are struggling to make two ends meet.

In life you'll meet two types of people: The ones who inspire you and the ones who bring you down. But in the end, you'll be thanking both.

Worthy is the one who remembers to thank the Lord for all His blessings; but admirable is the one who still thank God in spite of difficulties.

Sometimes we pass through many ups and downs but they are there to make us stronger than we imagine. Don't hate someone because of the challenges they pose on us. Just thank them for they are making you stronger.

If you don't know what to be thankful for, be thankful for all the troubles you haven't had yet.

My inner strength and self respect is getting stronger every day.. thank you to those who tried to bring me down... you made me who I am today.

I'm thankful for every break in my heart, I'm grateful for every scar, some pages turned, some bridges burned, but there were lessons learned.

To every girl who gossiped about me in corners of parties, to those who were my slap in the face, to the close minded or misunderstanding, to those boys that broke my heart, and to those friends who turned out to be back stabbers. You all challenged me to become the person I wanted to be. I am stronger because of all the stupid things you put me through. No matter how much you have done to me, you have unknowingly done so much more for me. So, thanks

certainly lived through more troubles than Tina, though Tina's own life couldn't be considered an easy one.

Maizy swallowed hard, a motion that almost strangled her in this blasted dress, and she nodded.

The devil is who torments good folks in the night. He whispers doubt in your ear. He stirs up anger. He picks at any little mistake you've made, or thinks you've made, and blows it up big. That's Satan, stirring and stirring trouble, like a pot he's trying to boil over, hoping he can spill sin through your soul and slop it all over the people around you.

I like the idea of having a family, but I'd've preferred a less troublesome one. One where I get shot or drowned less often.

Growth comes in the aftermath of failure, not wild success.

I told you before--you mustn't let Edward scare you. He's a bully and a coward. What would Frank Merriwell do if he were you?" Frank Merriwell--I was thoroughly sick of hearing that name.

We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.

We grow when the walls press in. We grow when life steals our control. We grow in darkness.

God's heart…is not that we escape our lot, but that we learn to thrive in the midst of it.

I realized that what I feared the most had materialized, yet I survived.

We've had a terrible start—it doesn't mean we can't have a better ending.

Sometimes there's not a better way. Sometimes there's only the hard way.