Quotes about Adversity
Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If He wasn't going to use that hard thing for your good, it wouldn't have happened. He had to sign off on every single thing that touches your life.
- James MacDonald
Life is a series of recoveries.
- Mark Lowry
You can be defeated by life's unavoidable disappointments, or you can become stronger because of them.
- Kay Arthur
Your life is not going to be easy, and it should not be easy. It ought to be hard. It ought to be radical; it ought to be restless; it ought to lead you to places you'd rather not go.
- Henri Nouwen
If you truly want to grow as a person and learn, you should realize that the universe has enrolled you in the graduate program of life, called loss.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.
- Dale Carnegie
If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall.
- Nelson Mandela
Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.
- John Calvin
When life is rosy, we may slide by with knowing about Jesus, with imitating him and quoting him and speaking of him. But only in suffering will we know Jesus.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Life's not fair, get over it!
- Bill Gates
Perspective is everything when you are experiencing the challenges of life.
- Joni Eareckson Tada