Quotes About Adversity

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

Failure is not meant to be final and fatal.... It is meant to refine you to be all that you are meant to be.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them - when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!

I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world.

You get to know who you really are in a crisis.

Avoid problems, and you'll never be the one who overcame them.

Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.

No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.

Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.

Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.

Self-pity is an acid which eats holes in happiness.

Women are like tea bags: put them in hot water and they get stronger.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

I hope this brings someone else the courage they need to face whatever challenge is before them.

Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.

Aspiring minds must sometimes sustain loss.

If you're hurt, lick your wounds and get up again. If you've given it your absolute best, it's time to move forward.

Don't be dismayed by the opinions of editors, or critics. They are only the traffic cops of the arts.

The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.

Fear is not the opposite of courage. Fear is the catalyst of courage.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.