Quotes About Adversity

When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face.

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.

Your fragility is also your strength.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Though we tremble before uncertain futures may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength may we dance in the face of our fears.

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Strength of character is certainly needed to face life in the world and to stand by right principles, especially in the age in which we live.

Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.

You feel your strength in the experience of pain.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

Our strength grows out of our weakness.

We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.

You have to remember that the hard days are what make you stronger. The bad days make you realize what a good day is. If you never had any bad days, you would never have that sense of accomplishment!

You can't always control circumstances. However, you can always control your attitude, approach, and response.

My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.

Strength is built by one's failures, not by one's successes.

Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

There is a saying in Tibetan, 'Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.' No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that's our real disaster.

We must make this campaign an exceedingly active one. Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

I was only given this life because I'm strong enough to live it.

Strength is not born from strength. Strength can be born only from weakness. So be glad of your weaknesses now, they are the beginnings of your strength.

Adversity often activates a strength we did not know we had.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.