Quotes about Adversity
We knew the promise had never been safety, or that bad things would not happen if we were good and virtuous. The promise is only that God is in it with us, no matter what it is.
- Madeleine L'Engle
Don't be bitter. Remember Lot's wife when they kill me, and they surely will. You have to use all of your energy to do what it is you have to do. [To his wife Betty Shabazz]
- Malcolm X
The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.
- Vince Lombardi Jr.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat but they are no less difficult.
- Winston Churchill
You gain strength courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Use the dirt life throws at you to plant the seeds of your success.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
You learn more from your tears than your smiles.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Danger is opportunity inside out.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
When failure knocks on your door, ignore it.When defeat bangs on your door, lock it.When success knocks on your door, answer it.When greatness knocks on your door, seize it.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
As the sun hides behind clouds, success hides behind trouble.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Slay Goliath and the army behind him scatters.
- Matshona Dhliwayo