Quotes about Adversity
Behold with what companions I walked the streets of Babylon, and wallowed in the mire thereof, as if in a bed of spices and precious ointments. And that I might cleave the faster to its very centre, the invisible enemy trod me down, and seduced me, for that I was easy to be seduced.
— St. Augustine
Even Fortune herself has had an adverse fortune.
— St. Augustine
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
— St. Augustine
The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.—Lamentations
— Stephanie Grace Whitson
The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.
— Jennifer Lopez
Defeat is a school in which truth always grows strong.
— Henry Ward Beecher
If we do not have a deep foundation of faith and a solid testimony of truth, we may have difficulty withstanding the harsh storms and icy winds of adversity which inevitably come to each of us.
— Thomas Monson
The truth of the matter is that all we have to do is live long enough and we will suffer.
— DA Carson
And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.
— Martin Luther
The best come from the worst
— Michael Jordan
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
— Jim Rohn