Quotes About Adversity

The true strength of any relationship is measured in bad times not good.

The terrorists thought they would change my aims and stop my ambitions. But nothing changed in my life except this: weakness, fear and hopelessness died. Strength, power and courage was born.

Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard.

I do believe in the old saying 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

A man doesn't realize how much he can stand until he is put to the test. You can stand far more than you think you can. You are much stronger than you think you are.

Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that's what makes you strong.

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

Use the pain as fuel, as a reminder of your strength.

To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.

There are no failures, only outcomes. As long as I learn something, I am succeeding.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

You build inner strength through embracing the totality of your experience, both the delightful parts and the difficult parts.

The enemy is only a pretext to test our strength

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

Without the strength to endure the crisis, one will not see the opportunity within. It is within the process of endurance that opportunity reveals itself.

Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless.

If you enter the dark side of life, and come through it, you emerge with more strength and passion.

To keep our faces toward chance and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

Everything can be taken from you in a second, but the human spirit is so strong. War can teach you so much about evil, and so much about good.