Quotes About Adversity

The morality taught by Paul and demonstrated by his converts was in stark contrast to the old, permissive morality of the ancient world. It was unconventional: It showed a love of man irrespective of his race, showed forgiveness instead of resentment for wrong, joy instead of grim endurance of adversity or oppression.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

Till kicked and torn and beaten out he liesAnd leaves his hold and cackles, groans, and dies.

The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.

It's a full-time job being homeless. It's a full-time job being poor.

Drowning men will drag you down if you let them. Sometimes, to survive, you have to let them sink.

Came from nothing- less than nothing, because the poor always enter this life with their account in deficit, and generally leave it in much the same condition...

But there was a saying in Hebrew, "We survived Pharoah, we'll survive this too." In the words of the old joke, it was the theme of every Jewish holiday: they tried to kill us, they failed, so let's eat!

She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be faced.

Anyone who spent time in a courtroom emerged with scars. The only variables were quantity and depth.

This was a fundamentally changed man, one who had come back strengthened, not weakened, by what he had endured, but who was also both less and more than he once had been. For

John Connolly

Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.

if no changes were necessary for you to achieve financial independence, you'd already be there.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee (Isa. 43:2).

I put the word "problems" in quotation marks, because difficulties only become problems when we separate ourselves from them instead of dealing with them directly and wholeheartedly.

There is no doubt of course that poverty develops much that is precious in life, not talent or genius alone, but valuable qualities of character. But it does vastly more harm than good. Whenever a man succeeds in spite of poverty we recognize the wonder and eagerly give it acclaim. But the failures resulting from poverty we pass over. Indeed, they are so common as to be almost uninteresting. We speak of them by the bulk.

The people who keep back change are often exasperating. But they have their work to perform, highly important work, too. Their very opposition, besides helping to weed out the weak ideas, gives the true ideas greater strength. For an idea is not worth much unless it can sturdily make its way through opposition and display toughness of fiber.

That which doesn't kill us will only try harder next time, so you might as well make the most of the space in between.

To me, failure is not fatal unless you quit; getting knocked down is not embarrassing unless you allow it to keep you down.

Dare to be different. Be a pioneer. Be a leader. Be the kind of woman who in the face of adversity will continue to embrace life and walk fearlessly toward the challenge. – Oprah Winfrey

You're not in this life for things to go well. You're in this life to be your deepest heart in all that goes well and in all that doesn't.

Weakness thrives where strength can go no further.