Quotes about Adversity
The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
— Winston Churchill
I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend.
— John Owen
Ad astra per aspera. (To the stars through difficulties.)
— Seneca
Fire is the test of gold adversity, of strong men.
— Seneca
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
— Seneca
To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.
— Seneca
A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall.
— Serena Williams
I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.
— Oprah Winfrey
I truly understand that there is a lesson in everything that happens to us. So I tried not to spend my time asking "Why did this happen to me?" but trying to figure out why I had chosen this.
— Oprah Winfrey
Things that seem bad at the time are really blessings.
— Richard Paul Evans
Time and again, the Faith has to all appearances gone to the dogs. But each time, it was the dog that died.
— GK Chesterton
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
— Henry Ford