Quotes about Adversity

Celebrate creativity and confidence in the face of adversity.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Life's had to break you down so you could be rebuilt

Getting lost along your path is a part of finding the path you are meant to be on.

just about every human being can reflect on his or her past and say, 'I learned from that hardship. I didn't think I would at the time, but I'm a bigger and better person for having endured it and persevered.

He can even use the bad things of life to bring about his ultimate purposes and ends. "That doesn't mean those things aren't bad—they really are bad. But they're all within the sovereignty of God. Even good can come out of evil.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings us today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle do

Vincit qui patitur [he who suffers conquers].

Why, there's hardly enough of me left to make ONE respectable person!

Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.

There are very real forces that whisper lying innuendos that assault your mind, your will, and your emotions in the hope of causing you to turn on yourself and then to turn on others.