Quotes about Adversity
Those who are the happiest are not neccessarily those for whom life has been easiest.
- James Dobson
Even when life is difficult or challenging-especially when life is difficult and challenging-the present is always an opportunity for us to learn, grow, and become better than we've ever been before.
- Hal Elrod
One of the few greatest satisfactions of this life is to handle problems efficiently and well.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Life happens not to me but for me.
- Tony Robbins
It would be great to not have any injuries and just go out and play football and have fun ... But in life there are adversities, and it all just depends on how you overcome them.
- Donovan McNabb
Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.
- Erwin McManus
Life is a challenge, we must take it.
- Mother Teresa
What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction
- Oprah Winfrey
Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.
- Marcus Aurelius
The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.
- Marianne Williamson
God's purpose for us is not to make us healthy, happy, prosperous, and problem-free. His ultimate purpose is to conform us to the image of His own dear Son, that we might bear much fruit to His glory.12 And sometimes, in fulfilling that purpose, He allows us to be hurt.
- Anne Graham Lotz
Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
- Anne Lamott