Quotes about Adversity
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.
- Paulo Coelho
Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life.
- Oscar Wilde
There is nothing worse than a life filled with adversity from which nothing good ever comes.
- Charles Stanley
Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don't whine. You can be brought low, that's OK, but don't be reduced by them. Just say, 'That's life.'
- Maya Angelou
it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
- Hannah More
If you're going to do anything great in life, there will be opposition, setbacks, delays and critics. When you have big dreams, you're going to have big challenges.
- Joel Osteen
There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life doesn't do anything to you. It only reveals your spirit.
- John Maxwell
Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.
- Lou Holtz
She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy.
- Maya Angelou
You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.
- Maya Angelou
If you think your lot in life has been hard read "Up From Slavery" by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
- Napoleon Hill