Quotes about Adversity
Painful experiences can be used to better prepare us for heaven. You see, if we let it, even pain can shape us—make us better people—get rid of some of the ugly parts of our humanity.
— Janette Oke
Research is so unpredictable. There are periods when nothing works and all your experiments are a disaster and all your hypotheses are wrong.
— Francis Collins
My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'
— Joe Biden
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
— Abraham Lincoln
Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
— Les Brown
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
— Babe Ruth
A pearl never loses its value, not even when covered with dirt.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
In every position that I've been in, there have been naysayers who don't believe I'm qualified or who don't believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.
— Sonia Sotomayor
It's all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.
— Martha Graham
The best work usually meets the strongest opposition.
— DL Moody
We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings.
— Theodore Roosevelt