Quotes about Adversity

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Simply suffering—that is what will be needed then—not parries, blows or thrusts such as may still be possible or admissible in the preliminary fight; the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully... For sometime the church struggle hasn't even been about what it appears to be about; the lines have been drawn somewhere else entirely.

All right," he wrote, "if [the devil] devours me he shall devour a laxative (God willing) which will make his bowels and anus too tight for him. Do you want to bet? One has to suffer if he wants to possess Christ."

Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

When you try to be a role model, not everybody can relate to some of your highs - awards, championships. But everybody can relate to the lows. Everybody's gotten fired from a job or gotten cut. People learn more about you in those lows than they do in the highs.