Quotes About Adversity

Adversity is always unexpected and unwelcomed. It is an intruder and a thief. But in the hands of God, adversity becomes the means through which HIS Supernatural Power is demonstrated.

I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you.

We don't know what we're capable of until we have to survive. Each of us is stronger than we know - the key is learning to tap that power at will.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

There is energy and power in a crisis.

Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

The power is in the balance: we are our injuries, as much as we are our successes.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

The surest way to reveal one's character is not through adversity but by giving them power.

It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune has no power.

The more fears we walk through, the more power we reclaim.

The extreme form of power is All against One, the extreme form of violence is One against All.

A man's enemies have no power to harm him, if he is true to himself and loyal to God.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

When you're playing with only 13 guys, and is on the power play 12 times, that'll wear you down.

Don't be afraid of the storms; be afraid of the ship and the captain! Forget about the outside factors, what matters is the internal power!

I just felt the power and the meanness of the man I was messing with.

Sometimes when we're in situations where we feel we're not in control, we do things, especially things that take a lot of energy, as a way of making ourselves feel we have some power.

I have learned the power of surviving.

You think me the child of circumstance; I make my circumstance.

Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt.

Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.