Quotes about Adversity

The foreign resident among you will rise higher and higher above you, while you sink lower and lower. Deuteronomy 28:43

Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil. Ephesians 6:11

I don't believe that rejection, in and of itself, is a stronghold. It's our reaction to rejection that determines whether or not we become bound by it.

God chose to teach me with the very things Satan had used to defeat me.

My reputation grows with every failure.

I think we build resilience to prepare for whatever adversity we'll face. And we all face some adversity - we're all living some form of Option B.

Playing in non-League gave me the resilience. I learned everything there. You needed to fight off hard tackles and I was playing against big men. You learn how to be strong and take them on and learn resilience.

I grew up segregated, but there was not much feeling of being shut out of anything.

Better to be in the arena getting stomped by the bulls, than to be up in the stands or out in the parking lot.

What's the difference between a Spartan king and a mid-ranker? One man will lob this query to his mate as they prepare to bed down in the open in a cold driving rain. His friend considers mock-theatrically for a moment. .'The king sleeps in that shithole over there' he replies. 'We sleep in this shithole over here.

Let us be, then, warriors of the heart, and enlist in our inner cause the virtues we have acquired through blood and sweat in the sphere of conflict—courage, patience, selflessness, loyalty, fidelity, self-command, respect for elders, love of our comrades (and of the enemy), perseverance, cheerfulness in adversity and a sense of humor, however terse or dark.

The will to victory may be demonstrated in places other than actual battle.