Quotes about Adversity
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny. —C. S. LEWIS
- RT Kendall
In our case, God often raises up an enemy to see if we really want to be like Jesus.
- RT Kendall
Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.
- Tony Evans
What a bitter, bitter thing is the service of Satan, even in this world!
- George Muller
Some of my worst moments in football have been losing semi-finals, the Barcelona game in 2009 probably more than most. But you have to take it and bounce back.
- Roberto Di Matteo
I broke my right ankle. Four ribs. One rib went into my liver. My spleen. My back in two places.
- Roddy Piper
I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
- Oprah Winfrey
Success is more difficult to handle than failure.
- Ravi Zacharias
Suffering degrades, embitters and enrages.
- Aung San Suu Kyi
Everybody suffers through some type of adversity. Does it make you stronger or does it pull you down? And I never will let any of that pull me down or pull me away from what I've set to achieve.
- Donovan McNabb
If you're going to go through hell... I suggest you come back learning something.
- Drew Barrymore
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson