Quotes about Adversity

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

O friend, never strike sail to a fear!

Don't pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

The secret to life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.

Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated...it is finished when it surrenders.