Quotes about Adversity
They fired arrows at me, but I did not fire back. I picked them up instead to build my castle.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A bird is born knowing how to fly, but has to learn to conquer the skies.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The sky's dangers offer the eagle more opportunities than the nest's comfort.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
The sweetest victories come after the bitterest defeats.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Turn your adversity into building blocks for the palace of your dreams.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
What you endured was a sign of what you would become.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Picking up the pieces of a shattered dream is better than having no pieces to pick up at all.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
In our deepest valleys we are strengthened to climb our highest mountains.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not stop growing because the wind blew off a few of its leaves.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Your strength doesn't come from winning. It comes from struggles and hardship. Everything that you go through prepares you for the next level.
- Germany Kent
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
- Henry David Thoreau