Quotes about Adversity

Your deepest valleys lead you to your highest mountaintops.

Your greatest highs come from overcoming your greatest lows.

Your worst past was preparation for your best future.

What you and I might rate as an absolute disaster, God may rate as a pimple-level problem that will pass. He views your life the way you view a movie after you've read the book. When something bad happens, you feel the air sucked out of the theater. Everyone else gasps at the crisis on the screen. Not you. Why? You've read the book. You know how the good guy gets out of the tight spot. God views your life with the same confidence. He's not only read your story...he wrote it.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power. The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerence. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors and deserves respect if not enthusiastic admiration.

Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood.

You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

You may encounter defeats, but you must not be defeated.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.

A winner is that person who gets up one more time than she is knocked down.