Quotes about Adversity
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
- Norman Vincent Peale
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength.
- Isabel Allende
We must do that which we think we cannot.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
When we are strong, we are always much greater than the things that happen to us.
- Thomas Merton
It is not when the cable lies coiled up on the deck that you know how strong or how weak it is; it is when it is put to the test.
- Henry Ward Beecher
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
- Charles Dickens
You can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift...You get to choose
- Wayne Dyer
But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.
- Vincent Van Gogh
Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.
- Oprah Winfrey
Your enemy wants to strip you, make sport of you, and merchandise your body, but your heavenly Father wants to clothe you with beauty, strength, dignity and honor that will endure.
- Nancy Leigh DeMoss
One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen.
- CS Lewis
If we didn't struggle through some things, we would never develop the strength and stamina we need to survive in this world.
- Joyce Meyer