Quotes About Adversity

O, do not pray for easy lives.

You must learn to be strong in the dark as well as in the day, else you will always be only half brave.

Man's inner strength may raise him above his outward fate.

You never know yourself until the chips are down. True strength is not measured when your at your strongest, but when you're at your weakest.

Strength just comes in one brand - you. Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you and keep your hair combed

Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

You don't always get stronger on the days that everything comes easily to you.

Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe.

Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great individuals, like great companies, find a way to transform weakness into strength.

My lord, adjudge my strength, and set me where I bear a little more than I can bear.

You can deal with stressful life experiences with strength from past ones.

If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

When you are behind bars with no hope of release, you need to find strength wherever you can. Personally, I found strength in Michael Jackson.

Human beings are like tea-bags. You don't know your own strength until you get into hot water.

The strain of life is what builds our strength. If there is no strain, there will be no strength.

If we lose our hope, that's our real disaster!

To bear lightly the neck's yoke brings strength; but kicking against the goads is the way of failure.

A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.

Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

For sheer strength of character, I wouldn't have dared to cross swords with Callas. I would rather have gone six rounds with Jack Dempsey.