Quotes about Adversity
I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life without limbs? Or life without limits?
- Nick Vujicic
Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.
- Paulo Coelho
Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed
- Rick Warren
I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?
- Epictetus
God uses those who seem ill-fitted for a significant life.
- Charles Swindoll
It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.
- Cormac McCarthy
Everything that happens to me can help me along in my Christian life.
- E Stanley Jones
It's always the organizations that are resource constrained that come up with the good ideas to win.
- Simon Sinek
We were poor when I was young but the difference was that the government didn't come around telling you you were poor.
- Ronald Reagan
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
- Rose Kennedy
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men and rocks all of them to manhood.
- Heinrich Heine