Quotes About Adversity

Strength is the outcome of need.

A cobweb is as good as the mightiest cable when there is strain upon it.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

It gave me strength and toughness because I had to face reality, no matter how uncomfortable or painful it was.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

With strength to meet sorrow, and faith to endure

Cancer had a chance to break me down, but I was determined to fight back with strength and positivity.

Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong.

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten

It is a weak man who blames his failures on the strength of others.

In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good.

Eye me, blest Providence, and square my trial To my proportion'd strength.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

The young disease, that must subdue at length, Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

Poverty doesn't give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

You get strength and courage, when you stop to look fear in the face.

He who does not walk against the arrows cannot talk about the strength of his shield!

Great things are possible only to strong souls and it's from the trivial events of daily life that strength is won.

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.

But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.